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Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife. — Chanakya

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

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

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. — Elizabeth Taylor

It's fascinating. Did you know that Moanin' Lisa failed Home Ec last year? It proves the point, bro. You can't turn a hoe into a housewife. — J.M. Darhower

If you are a housewife, take pride in that. — Anthea Turner

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

I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife. — Jacques Chirac

Some women marry houses. — Anne Sexton

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

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

"You make cheese yourself," she repeated reverently. "You are a real housewife." It has taken me decades to get here, but I took that as a compliment. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples. — Robert Graves

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. — George Akerlof

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife ... I guess I am a fantasy. — Marilyn Monroe

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

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife. — Liz Phair

Fearless
the cobweb swings from the ceiling
Indolent Housewife
in Daisies
lain! — Emily Dickinson

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

I'm really a very fifties housewife. — Eva Longoria

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife. — Frederic Morton

I'm not a housewife in any way. — Courteney Cox

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

What people want to know is, OK, what's after modeling? It's not just OK anymore to model until you're 25 and then stop and be a housewife. — Gigi Hadid

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

I have too much imagination to be a housewife — Marilyn Monroe

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

In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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

So, do you clean, too?"
"Hell, no!.. I'm gay ... not a damn housewife!"
Everybody laughed.
(The Tin Star) — J.L. Langley

Because you can't turn a hoe into a housewife. — Carrie Huggins

I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor ... and now I'm a style guru! — Barry Humphries

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

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job — Roseanne Barr

I'm an FFH: a Formerly Fat Housewife. — Jean Nidetch

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

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

All work and no pay makes a housewife. — Evan Esar

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

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

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

So Carol, you're a housewife and mother. And have you got any children? — Michael Barrymore

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. — Danielle Steel

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. — Gore Vidal

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 saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do. — Tawni O'Dell

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. — James Cameron

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

She seemed like a keeper. Housewife material, verses your usual whorehouse type. — J.M. Darhower

They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true. — Julia Sweeney

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. — James Howell

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

She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer. Madonna versus whore. An option not mired in the lingering detritus of some Victorian-era dream. — Chuck Palahniuk

What's good for the goose is definitely good for the desperate housewife. Even if this never happened again — James Patterson

I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there might be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children ... parasites. — Gloria Steinem

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games. — Charlaine Harris

When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore? — Chuck Klosterman

I have become a housewife and there is no better job. — Celine Dion

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one. — Terry McMillan

Without the baggy clothes or oven mitts, she looked less like a cute young housewife and more like something that had crawled out of Hell. — S.M. Reine

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker. — Alan Sugar

I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house. — Wilma Scott Heide

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

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

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

I am a ginger tim. I am a boy racer. I am a housewife. I am a pain in the arse. — Joan Ellis

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

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

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

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

I could be a housewife ... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times. — Debbie Harry

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

She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing. — Niccolo Ammaniti