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Where did the voice ideas come from?
Marge's raspy voice is only slightly different from Kavner's, who has a "honeyed gravel voice" which she says is due to "a bump on [her] vocal cords..
Has she always been voiced by the same person?
During a pay dispute in 1998, Fox threatened to replace the six main voice actors with new actors, going as far as preparing to cast new voices.
What happened with that?
However, the dispute was soon resolved and she received $125,000 per episode.
Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
Matt Groening first conceived Marge and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lobby of producer James L.
Brooks' office.
What was the idea behind her?
Marge was named after Groening's mother Margaret "Marge" Groening, who has said she bears little similarity to the character, stating, .

Question: What did he state?
Self-contained rewrite: What did Groening say about Marge Simpson?