Quotes and Sayings about Housewife
"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
(Related: Home, Work, Husband, Housewife, Job, Kids)
"My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer."
- James Cameron
(Related: Mother, Father, Artist, Housewife)
"I have become a housewife and there is no better job."
- Celine Dion
(Related: Housewife, Job)
"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
(Related: Food, Attention, Housewife, Relax)
"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
(Related: Economy, Housewife)
"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
(Related: Mother, Being, Housewife, Interest, Job, World)
"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
(Related: Fact, Housewife, Mind)
"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
(Related: Power, Corporate, Housewife, Now, Woman)
"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Fantasy, Housewife)
"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
(Related: Mother, Development, Being, Children, Dedication, Housewife, Interest, May)
"I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there."
- Martha Plimpton
(Related: Women, Care, Hearing, Housewife, Want)
"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."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Time, HusbBeing, First, Housewife, Years)
"I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife."
- Elizabeth Taylor
(Related: Housewife)
"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
(Related: Home, Dream, Acting, Housewife, Reading)
"If you are a housewife, take pride in that."
- Anthea Turner
(Related: Housewife, Pride)
"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
(Related: Honor, Housewife, Man, Mission, Soldiers)