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'''Helen Morgendorffer''' (née '''Barksdale''') is a character created for the MTV animated series ''Daria.'' A corporate lawyer, she is the mother of [[Daria Morgendorffer]] and [[Quinn Morgendorffer]].
[[Glenn Eichler]] [http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glennanswers.html has said] she was "45-46" in "[[I Don't]]"
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Helen became a corporate lawyer, a career that became the focus of her life. Even after she became the mother of two daughters, she continued to work at the expense of her family. While failing to make partner at the firms she worked for, Helen likely became the family bread-winner due to her long hours put in at work, though the exact amount that she earns in comparison to her husband is never revealed either in actual salary numbers or real work hours put in respectively with either parent.
She currently works for a [[Lawndale]] firm called [[Vitale, Davis, Horowitz, Riordan, Schrecter, Schrecter, and Schrecter]]. Various sources like "[[Partner's Complaint]]", "[[The Daria Diaries]]", and "[[Is It College Yet?]]" indicate that she has to defend some ''extremely'' dodgy or frivolous clients, in "Complaint" noting she was being asked to do something illegal and unethical ("alright, I'll do it"), and in IICY? talking about a major oil spill ("accidents ''do'' happen").<br> <br><br><br><br><br>In "[[College Bored]]", when she said Daria shouldn't be making money by helping cheats, Daria asked if that meant she was giving up her job, something that severely pissed Helen off. In "Diaries", a grumpy Helen, after dealing with various work-related crap, wishes she'd gone into maritime law.
==Personality==
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{{quote|It isn't easy raising two teenagers all by yourself. With Jake.|Helen on Jake in "[[The Daria Hunter]]"}}
<br><br><br><br>They celebrated their 23rd wedding anniversary around the time of season 2. ("[[The Daria Database]]")
Jake often frustrates her with his various personality quirks, neuroticism, cluelessness, and crazy antics; most of the time, this is shrugged off as background noise, though in "[[Psycho Therapy]]", "[[Gifted]]", "[[This Year's Model]]", "[[One J at a Time]]", and the [[Broodbeat]] website she showed far greater discontent lurks under the surface. She became quite vicious in "Psycho Therapy" when she had to roleplay as him, and in "One J" she expresses anger over the fact Jake won't get over his childhood.
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[[Image:Helen_Daria.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Helen and Daria in an attempt at conversation ("Lane Miserables")]]
<br><br><br><br><br>Helen's obsession to be the best described with her relationships with her children and in particular, her relationship with her oldest daughter [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]]. Helen is constantly pushing her daughter to be more involved with school activities, to make friends (or "network") with the more popular students at [[Lawndale High]], to open up to her and be positive, and generally be more of a conformist. Often Daria finds herself pressured or bribed with money to go along with her mother's demands. In "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", Helen revealed the reason she does this: she believes Daria is hiding behind an antisocial mask and refuses to let her daughter ''become'' that mask.
Daria tends to speak with her mother more often than her sister [[Quinn Morgendorffer]] does, and usually the conversations are of an adult level of maturity. At times Helen will succeed in getting Daria to talk about whatever current trouble she is dealing with. On occasion Helen demonstrates a deeper understanding of her daughter's habits than most of the family gives her credit for, such as in the episode "[[Write Where It Hurts]]," where she succinctly explains Daria's cynical habits and offers some help and sage parental advice. In "[[Dye! Dye! My Darling]]", Helen was who Daria turned to in one of her darkest hours and Helen immediately dropped work to help.
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Helen's family come from a southern state, most likely (according to Eichler) Virginia.
[http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glennanswers.html Eichler has confirmed] Helen ''will'' become partner: "she'll have to threaten to sue them for gender discrimination to get it. Eric won't speak to her for a year afterward. It will be the best year of her career."
==Misc. Trivia==
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