Jean Stapleton: Edith Bunker

Quotes 

• Archie Bunker : Do you know the kind of money it takes to raise a child? You know, yanking out the tonsils and the adenoods. Straightening the teeth, straightening the eyes.

  Edith Bunker : Her eyes?

  Archie Bunker : All girls go cock-eyed during puberescency.

• Edith Bunker : He's really a wonderful man, my husband, and underneath he's very sweet.

  Archie Bunker : Damn that Barney Hefner, I'm gonna murder him. Look what happened to me just now: I nearly busted an ankle jumping over two pyramids that Barney's dog left on our sidewalk.