Housewife Quotes

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

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

Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

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

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house?

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

The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.

I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

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 I couldn't do that. I couldn't be a housewife.

I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it.

My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!

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

Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

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

I'm not a housewife in any way.

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 to grow them.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams.

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were community leaders.

Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.