Housewife Quotes · Page 5

Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

— Irene Rosenfeld

[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.

— Hilary Mantel

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

— Milos Forman

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

— Indira Gandhi

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in…

— Simone de Beauvoir

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

— Florynce Kennedy

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

— Indira Gandhi

We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't…

— Betty Friedan

When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As…

— Wendell Berry

Oh, hi. I been married thirteen years, and lemme tell you, it's a thrill to be out of the house. I never…

— Roseanne Barr

In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It…

— Virginia Henley

There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of…

— Eleanor Rathbone

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

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made…

— Anonymous

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and…

— Janet Fitch

“Kos had different tastes. He was on the lookout for that Midwestern housewife attending a conference with her husband. There was usually…

— Amber Belldene

We'll eradicate Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic. There is…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

— Helen Brown

These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions…

— Mary Blakely

This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had…

— Ayn Rand

What I'm asking people to do is to look at their lives, wherever they may be. I mean, you may be a…

— Lewis Pugh

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

I self-named myself 'No. 6' because, according to my records, I'm the sixth 'Housewife' to have been hired by Bravo.

— Jill Zarin

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

— Caroline Leavitt

In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.

— Thomas Tusser

Being a housewife is not important to me, but I'm never happier than when I come home and shut the door.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.'

— Roseanne Barr

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've…

— Roseanne Barr

I'd like to be a weak, boring housewife. Because then it would involve more acting. It would be challenging to do something…

— Izabella Scorupco

Some women choose to stay at home and be housewives. If they are happy with it, then it's a wonderful choice. But…

— May-Britt Moser

When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there…

— Marcia Cross

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

— Bella Abzug

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

— Sylvia Plath

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that…

— Graham Greene

Someone once described being a Housewife to me as being one big chess game, and in many ways, I guess it is…

— Teresa Giudice

People don't get drafted into being housewives. It's a voluntary experience, so people are putting themselves into this situation voluntarily.

— Andy Cohen

“Nicotine addicted, persecuted, her day is a maddening circle of tea and biscuits, baking, smoking, the necessary fiction of the housewife.”

— James Claffey

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real…

— Samuel L. Jackson