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
Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true;… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light… — Miep Gies Copy Share Image
The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I love the romance of what I do, although because of Isabella, Lady Gaga and Grace Jones, people think I have crazy… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
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 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
This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the… — Gerda Lerner 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
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 Copy Share Image
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom & Sons, and she… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Listen, we're all on television because everybody wants to see the fabulous life. They want to see the businesses, the kids, the… — Porsha Williams Copy Share Image
I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image