Housewife Quotes · Page 5

The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

— Andy Cohen

They say you cant turn a hoe into a housewife...So why all of these housewives out here hoein?

— Anonymous

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it…

— Katharine Hepburn

I came from a really traditional home where my dad was working, and my mom was a housewife.

— Greta Lee

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

— Chanakya

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

— Indira Gandhi

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

— Pedro Almodovar

I'm not saying a housewife is in any way inferior to a workingwoman. No, she isn't. But as an activist, as a…

— Shabana Azmi

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David,…

— Kiki Dee

A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up…

— Betty Ford

What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen…

— Isabella Beeton

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the…

— Ann Richards

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time…

— Kelly Reilly

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he…

— Robert Powell

To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job.…

— Phyllis McGinley

I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous…

— Mike Ness

“I had never thought I had much in common with anybody. I had no mother, no father, no roots, no biological similarities…

— Rita Mae Brown

“I have found that there is romance in housework: and charm in it; and whimsy and humor without end. I have found…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported…

— Stewart Udall

“When you are a mother and a homemaker, you are your own boss. The days are what you make of them. The…

— Rachel Jankovic

Stan: Francine, I want you to stop this nonsense. Francine: "Nonsense"? This job is my career. Stan: No, my job is a…

— American Dad

“It was a woman in Minnesota who clarified this shift for me. She pointed out that her mother called herself a housewife.…

— Jennifer Senior

Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet…

— John Gay

Turning a hoe into a housewife is like turning water into wine. Leave that to Jesus.

— Anonymous

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

— James Cameron

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they…

— John Barrowman

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy…

— Isabella Beeton

My dad worked as a floor manager in a clothing mill in Dombivli and my mom is a housewife.

— Daisy Shah

I have lots of jobs. But I think being a housewife makes me understand people's human nature and the need to survive,…

— Phaedra Parks

I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

— Sylvia Plath

If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and…

— Betty Friedan

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

— Malala Yousafzai

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

— Terry McMillan

I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn't make me feel like I have to be a stereotype. Like…

— Jessica Williams

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

— Anonymous

Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does…

— Hilda Scott

Can't turn a hoe into a housewife cause gardening tools are awful at washing dishes, pressing shirts, and giving blowies.

— Anonymous

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

— Emily Dickinson

“You make cheese yourself," she repeated reverently. "You are a real housewife." It has taken me decades to get here, but I…

— Barbara Kingsolver