Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
For me, I purely enjoyed being newly married and being a wife to my husband, a good housewife, and enjoying with my… — Esha Deol Copy Share Image
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader… — Josefina Vazquez Mota 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
I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house. — Wilma Scott Heide 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
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
Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife… — Florynce Kennedy 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
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
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
Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on… — Jimmy Fallon 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
Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth,… — Charles Dickens 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
The new female is competent in all that she chooses. She chooses whatever her heart tells her. She can create a business,… — Gary Zukav 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
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
Dad worked as a security guard for United Airlines, and Mom was a housewife who cleaned houses to make ends meet. — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife. — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
There is a certain amount of conflict that comes with being a 'Housewife.' It is not a comfortable position. If you are… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
If there's anything more popular on 'Housewives' than a fight over hair, it's a housewife diving into water. It's a prerequisite for… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would… — Bethany Joy Lenz Copy Share Image
“Fact: Mrs. Isabella Beeton’s “Book of Household Management” did indeed describe housewives as Household Generals. This is Mrs. Steward’s favorite book, followed… — Vered Ehsani 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
I had one of my coaches that told me that I was going to amount to nothing but a housewife. I'd seen… — Jade Cargill Copy Share Image
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days… — Angela Carter 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
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
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
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