Kavner has won several awards for voicing Marge, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992.

Marge has been unemployed for most of the series, choosing to be a homemaker and take care of her family.

While Marge has never expressed discontent with her role as a homemaker, she has become bored with it.

Marge was named after Groening's mother Margaret " Marge " Groening, who has said she bears little similarity to the character, stating, " It's really weird to have people think you're a cartoon.

He felt that they could achieve a " deeper vein " of comedy in an episode where Marge has a nervous breakdown, and James L. Brooks quickly approved.

Marge often provides a grounding opinion for Homer and their marriage has often been shaky.

Marge admits that she " put up with a lot in marriage ," and has left Homer or thrown him out of the house on several occasions.

Through it all, Marge has remained faithful to Homer, despite temptations to the contrary such as the one in " Life on the Fast Lane " ( season one, 1990 ), where she resists the charming Frenchman Jacques and instead chooses to remain with Homer.

Marge has expressed understanding for her " special little guy " and has defended him on many occasions.

" Marge has a good relationship with Lisa and the two are shown to get along quite well.

Marge has tolerated their criticism, but has occasionally lost patience with them, once referring to them as " ghouls.

Marge has higher morals than most other characters, once leading a family values crusade against the violent Itchy & Scratchy Show and being a prominent member of the " Citizens ' Committee on Moral Hygiene.

While Marge has learned to cope with her addiction, it has never completely disappeared and remains an underlying problem that is referenced occasionally on the show.

AOL has named Marge the 24th " Most Memorable Female TV Character ".

Religious writer Kenneth Briggs has written that " Marge is my candidate for sainthood [...] She lives in the real world, she lives with crises, with flawed people.

* Woman on the Edge of Time ( 1976 ) by Marge Piercy, the story of a middle-aged Hispanic woman who has visions of two alternative futures, one utopian and the other dystopian.

He has long been infatuated with Marge Simpson, whom he calls ' Midge ', and has on occasion tried to win her away from Homer.

When Marge objects that the Bible has strict guidelines concerning marriage and divorce, Lovejoy states that " according to the bible, just about everything is a sin, technically we can't even go to the bathroom ".

Marge Devine Duffy, a secretary in King Features public relations department, had been helping Russell handle correspondence to the NCS, and in 1948, she was installed as the official NCS secretary and later given the title Scribe of the Society.

After the two had been dating for several years, Marge discovered she was pregnant with Bart, and she and Homer were married in a small wedding chapel across the state line.

In " Regarding Margie " ( season 17, 2006 ), Homer mentioned that Marge was his age, meaning she could have been anywhere between 36 and 40.

" Various episodes in which Marge is prominently featured have been nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program, including " The Way We Weren't " in 2004 and " Life on the Fast Lane ", which won the award in 1990.

In the episode " Duffless ", we see Wiggum misuse police terminology, phoning Marge Simpson to inform her Homer had been found DOA, only to correct himself and say he was DWI.

" He also has been known to arrest people impulsively, disregarding their involvement of a determined situation or crime, evident in " Brother from Another Series " where he arrested Sideshow Bob by the incidents of the episode, despite Bart and Lisa ( the main witnesses ) confirming his innocence, and in " The Frying Game " where he gleefully condemns Homer and Marge to death for murder without using a lie detector or making a DNA examination.

When the circus came through Springfield, Bart recognized him and brought him home to rid himself of Nelson ( who had been taken into the Simpson home by Marge ).

Marge and her husband, Norm ( Lynch ), sit in bed together discussing his artwork, which has been selected as the design for a postage stamp.

Marge, having been rescued along with Lisa by park rangers, identifies the monster in question as her husband.

Lane's persona has been referenced in The Simpsons: on the audio commentary to the episode " Marge in Chains ", its director Jim Reardon states that Lane's performance in It's a Wonderful Life inspired the character of the snide, humourless Blue-Haired Lawyer who appears in that and other episodes in the series.

He is parodied in The Simpsons episode " A Streetcar Named Marge " as William F. George, a syndicated columnist who has been invited as a member of the panel of celebrity judges for a beauty pageant.

Fans urged owner Marge Schott to lift the long standing policy that had been in place since 1967 which she eventually did.

Lisa finds Bart and tells him that the family has been kicked out of the casino after Homer pushed a waitress and Marge lost US $ 20, 000.

After failing to sell the house to Apu and Ralph Wiggum, Homer and Marge complain to their congressman, Horace Wilcox, who has been Springfield's representative since 1933.

Lisa and Bart are watching TV with Grandpa, when they learn that the hotel in Dayton where Marge and Homer are supposed to be staying has been completely wiped out by a tornado.

* After the Simpsons ' kitchen is renovated, Marge says: " When Virginia Woolf wrote every woman needs a room of one's own, she must have been talking about the kitchen.

Homer and Marge decide to visit the company, thinking there has been a mistake.

Homer then realises Marge has been resenting him behind his back.

" Marge vs. the Monorail " has frequently been selected in lists of the show's best episodes.

Marge, on the other hand, who had previously been portrayed as supportive of gay people on the show, is seen as disapproving of her sister's sexual orientation.

Chief Wiggum states " now that's a bad hair day " every one laughs at the joke except Marge who reminds everyone that two well known people of Springfield have been murdered, only to suddenly get the joke, and everyone laughs until the end of the segment.

Still in 2004, Marge was ranked third in a poll conducted by the Opinion Research Company.

* In the 19th episode of The Simpsons ´ ninth season, titled " Simpson Tide " originally aired on the Fox network on March 29, 1998, a reference to " The Clapper " is made where Homer tells his wife Marge that " We live in a highly technological age where fighting a war is as simple as turning off a light!

When Marge leaves, Bart finds a small piece of highly unstable plutonium in Homer's toolbox and hammers it into the remote's battery slot.

Artie says he can think of a dozen highly cogent arguments to why Marge should accept his prom offer, one of which is from a Time magazine titled " America's Love Affair with the Prom: Even wallflowers can look forward to one date a year ," a reference to the American magazine Time.