“When Pat Schroeder, a Harvard Law graduate, ran for office in 1972, the headlines read "Housewife" or "Mother" runs for Congress. When… — Myra MacPherson Copy Share Image
My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image
To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I love my play 'The Trials and Tribulations Of A Trailer Trash Housewife' because I get these letters from all of these… — Del Shores Copy Share Image
My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure -… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
“Bread, however, is their chief food. It is cheap; they like it; it comes into the house ready cooked, it is always… — Maud Pember Reeves Copy Share Image
One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine,… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
“I want the housewife to know that she is filling the most important need in the world. I want her to know… — James Breckenridge Jones Copy Share Image
Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Kos had different tastes. He was on the lookout for that Midwestern housewife attending a conference with her husband. There was usually… — Amber Belldene Copy Share Image
I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because… — Rachel Uchitel Copy Share Image
Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you look at the parts I've played and the movies I've done... I mean you have to work with the stereotype.… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few… — Christian Schwochow Copy Share Image
That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents… — Ira Levin Copy Share Image
Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean… — Ann Oakley Copy Share Image
I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my… — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
If I'm following a traditional look, where I'm like, your traditional housewife, I'll put my hair in a bun and I'll follow… — Porsha Stewart Copy Share Image
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Yes, the Navy wife is unique in that she is a housewife, mother, father, and family manager all in one. She also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In cinema, you have a captive audience, but to grab the attention of a housewife, who is in the middle of her… — Amrita Rao Copy Share Image
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a difference between watching a chef show, which doesn't feel like a reality show compared to the Housewives. Those shows can,… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum.… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting.… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image