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Dale Coba is the president of the Men’s Association in Stepford. Joanna immediately dislikes him when she meets him, since he talks to her in an incredibly condescending manner—she can just tell he doesn’t value her as a human being. She eventually learns that Dale used to work at Disneyland, where he helped design very lifelike robots that looked, moved, and spoke like past presidents. Putting two and two together, Joanna realizes that Dale has applied this skill in Stepford by working with the other members of the Men’s Association to turn all of the women into robotic housewives.
Dale Coba Quotes in The Stepford Wives
The The Stepford Wives quotes below are all either spoken by Dale Coba or refer to Dale Coba. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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She was wrong, she knew it. She was wrong and frozen and wet and tired and hungry, and pulled eighteen ways by conflicting demands. Including to pee.
If they were killers, they’d have killed her then. The branch wouldn’t’ have stopped them, three men facing one woman.
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Bobbie would bleed. It was coincidence that Dale Coba had worked on robots at Disneyland, that Claude Axhelm thought he was Henry Higgins, that Ike Mazzard drew his flattering sketches. Coincidence, that she had spun into—into madness. Yes, madness.
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Dale Coba Quotes in The Stepford Wives
The The Stepford Wives quotes below are all either spoken by Dale Coba or refer to Dale Coba. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
She was wrong, she knew it. She was wrong and frozen and wet and tired and hungry, and pulled eighteen ways by conflicting demands. Including to pee.
If they were killers, they’d have killed her then. The branch wouldn’t’ have stopped them, three men facing one woman.
[…]
Bobbie would bleed. It was coincidence that Dale Coba had worked on robots at Disneyland, that Claude Axhelm thought he was Henry Higgins, that Ike Mazzard drew his flattering sketches. Coincidence, that she had spun into—into madness. Yes, madness.
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