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'Housewives' has shone a light on women of middle age, that you're not out of the game, you're not old, you're not put out…

— Erika Jayne

“Every new generation of women, it seems, feminist and housewife alike, is encouraged by popular culture to disavow its forebears and rebrand itself as…

— Carina Chocano

As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

— Alva Myrdal

“Until the middle of the twentieth century, men earned most of the income for the family, while women, as “traditional housewives,” were responsible for…

— Murray Milner Jr

Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

— May-Britt Moser

I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“I have found that there is romance in housework: and charm in it; and whimsy and humor without end. I have found that the…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I just want to say that from an early age, my parents instilled in me the values that you work hard for want you…

— Carole Radziwill

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that…

— Anais Nin

To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as…

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— Coco Chanel