I am a ginger tim. I am a boy racer. I am a housewife. I…

Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be…

— Margaret Cavendish

“In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only…

— Helen Brown

My life always came first. When I got nominated for Diary of a Mad Housewife, I didn't think, 'Aah, now I'll get more money.'…

— Carrie Snodgress

Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a…

— Jessie Bernard

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony…

— Neil Gaiman

Housewives spend more money than their husbands make, so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do.

— Danny Kaye

Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another,…

— David Ogilvy

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 all the…

— Porsha Stewart

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Isabella Beeton

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.

— Carole Radziwill

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

— Coco Chanel

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.

— Sylvia Plath

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a…

— Alice Munro

“can I help it if I’m a better assassin than I am a housewife?”

— Josie Brown