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I have become a housewife and there is no better job. -- Celine Dion
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. -- Marilyn Monroe
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. -- Bella Abzug
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job. -- Roseanne Barr
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother. -- Katharine Hepburn
Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals. -- Ann Oakley
Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain! -- Emily Dickinson
In the search for happiness, However, We r all equal; None of us is Happy - Not the Banker/Actors/Actresses/Politician/Housewife/Model/Doctor and so on. -- Avinash Advani
I hope to stay on 'Glee,' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer. -- NeNe Leakes
How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other. -- Luanne Rice
Housewife: a position requiring great ambition to fill. Must have the determination to scrub mold, the good taste to distribute a checking account, and the good will to repeat this at a maid service or department store after her husband starts coming home drunk. -- Bauvard
My life always came first. When I got nominated for Diary of a Mad Housewife, I didn't think, 'Aah, now I'll get more money.' My dream had always just been to do my works well, fall in love and build a life for myself. -- Carrie Snodgress
I call myself a 'domestic goddess. -- Roseanne Barr
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. -- Elizabeth Taylor
If you are a housewife, take pride in that. -- Anthea Turner
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. -- Gore Vidal
A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife. -- Frederic Morton
My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker. -- Alan Sugar
I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times. -- Debbie Harry
I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else. -- Annie Dillard
Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples. -- Robert Graves
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. -- James Cameron
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard. -- Irene Rosenfeld
I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one. -- Terry McMillan
I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.' -- Roseanne Barr
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention. -- Eva Gabor
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves. -- Margaret Mead
But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room. -- Miep Gies
Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it. -- Grace Slick
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. -- Tamar Braxton
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. -- Julian Baggini
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.' -- Taylor Swift
I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day. -- Johnny Weir
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy. -- Kat Graham
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy. -- Kat Graham
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother. -- Eleanor Rathbone
The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family. -- Lindsay Fox
There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. You have your good days, and you have your bad days. If you're a housewife, you have your good days, and you have your bad days. -- Tracy Morgan
Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes. -- Nancy Pelosi
I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations. -- Ann Richards
The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. -- Kenny Loggins
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would love to be a housewife and have a chateau in the South of France, I would love to be a singer that travels to cafes around different towns. -- Bethany Joy Lenz
To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed. -- Phyllis McGinley
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? -- A. B. Yehoshua
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. -- Taslima Nasrin
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations. -- Barbara Bergmann
I'm really a very fifties housewife. -- Eva Longoria
I'm not a housewife in any way. -- Courteney Cox
All work and no pay makes a housewife. -- Evan Esar
I have too much imagination to be a housewife -- Marilyn Monroe
I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife. -- Jacques Chirac
Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really. -- Li Na
I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games. -- Charlaine Harris
My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. -- George Akerlof
So Carol, you're a housewife and mother. And have you got any children? -- Michael Barrymore
They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. -- James Howell
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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy. -- Marilyn Monroe
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely. -- Indira Gandhi
I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house. -- Wilma Scott Heide
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years. -- Indira Gandhi
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. -- Charles Spurgeon
My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife. -- Pedro Almodovar
I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife. -- Sylvia Plath
In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones. -- Mary Baker Eddy
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive -- Les Paul
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife. -- Chanakya
My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests. -- Maria Goeppert-Mayer
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
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
I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all. -- Sylvia Plath
You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature. -- Peter Mayle
there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways, -- Isabella Beeton
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife. -- Marilyn Monroe
I'd like to be a weak, boring housewife. Because then it would involve more acting. It would be challenging to do something like that. -- Izabella Scorupco
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. -- Jimmy Carter
nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day. -- Gerda Lerner
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn -- Graham Greene
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. -- Richard Asher
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room. -- Germaine Greer
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! -- Erma Bombeck
I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids. -- Marcia Gay Harden
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. -- Graham Greene
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage. -- Doris Day
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. -- Betty Friedan
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. -- Hilda Scott
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. -- Kate Zambreno
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 desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. -- Janet Fitch
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer. -- Dale Carnegie
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. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
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. -- Camilla Luddington
As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife. -- Arundhati Roy
Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams. -- Kathryn Joosten
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. -- Kathryn Joosten
If womenâ??s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home. -- Betty Friedan
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. -- Alison Jackson
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. -- David Bowie
A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not. -- Germaine Greer
I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen. -- Michelle Paver
I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far. -- Marta Kristen
I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time. -- Meg Tilly
Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past -- Phyllis McGinley
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. -- May-Britt Moser
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. -- Kristin Hannah
Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals." -- Ann Oakley
Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job. -- Glenda Jackson
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. -- Kelly Reilly
Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that -- Vivian Gornick
Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again. -- Florynce Kennedy

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