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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 was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
— Liz Phair
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
"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
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
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
She married a house? — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
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
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
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
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
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