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 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.

Marge has been ranked highly in lists of the top television mothers of all time.

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 ".

Patty and Selma have occasionally expressed their common hope that Marge will eventually divorce Homer.

Marge is a caring, understanding, and nurturing parent to Bart, but she refers to him as " a handful " and is often embarrassed by his antics.

Selig suspended Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott for a year in 1993 for repeated racially insensitive and prejudicial remarks and actions.

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.

The episode " That ' 90s Show " ( season 19, 2008 ) contradicted much of the established back-story ; for example, it was revealed that Marge and Homer were childless in the early 1990s although past episodes had suggested Bart and Lisa were born in the 1980s.

An original idea the animators had for when Marge walked through doorways was that her hair would be forced down as she walked through, then once clear of the door, it would spring back and forth.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner and fellow cast member Dan Castellaneta to voice Marge and Homer rather than hire more actors.

Politically, Marge generally aligns with the Democratic Party, having supported the candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting for Jimmy Carter in both of his presidential elections.

At the 44th Primetime Emmy Awards, Kavner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for voicing Marge in the season three episode " I Married Marge ".

" 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.

Marge appeared in a 2005 advertisement for Dove Styling, where her normal beehive hair was exchanged for a more stylish look for a series of ads featuring several popular cartoon women.

Healy and the Stooges also appeared together in Myrt and Marge for Universal Pictures.

The ghosts of Homer and Marge watch Bart taunt Milhouse, and Homer attempts to talk Marge in to having ghost sex with him, only for Marge to tell him that " ghost sex is nothing.

Marge is the moralistic force in her family and often provides a grounding voice in the midst of her family's antics by trying to maintain order in the Simpson household.

In 2000, Marge, along with the rest of her family, was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In " The Way We Was " ( season two, 1991 ), it is revealed via flashback that Marge attended Springfield High School, and in her final year met Homer Simpson.

These include working as a nuclear technician alongside Homer at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in " Marge Gets a Job " ( season four, 1992 ); selling houses in " Realty Bites " ( season nine, 1997 ); owning her own pretzel business in " The Twisted World of Marge Simpson " ( season eight, 1997 ), and working at an erotic bakery in " Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes " ( season 20, 2008 ).

In " The Springfield Connection " ( season six, 1995 ), Marge decided that she needed more excitement in her life and became a police officer.

" While Marge is her most famous character, Kavner's favorite characters to voice are Patty and Selma because " they're really funny and sad at the same time.

Marge is generally a stereotypical sitcom mother, and she also plays the " long-suffering wife " who puts up with the antics of her children and her oafish husband.

The next day, Homer is dirty and disheveled, and begs Marge to take him back, saying the one thing he can offer her that nobody else can is " complete and utter dependence.

Marge in her first televised appearance in " Good Night ".

Marge over-mothers Maggie, which causes her to become too clingy and dependent on Marge.

Marge begins to miss Maggie, but at the end of the episode, Maggie starts to need her again.

Marge maintains a good relationship with her mother Jacqueline and her sisters Patty and Selma, though they disapprove of Homer and are vocal about it.

As Lisa rants about the people who believe it is an angel, Marge informs her that she also believes it is an angel.

" In spite of her morals, Marge struggles with vices, such as a gambling addiction.