“ No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love — except the housewife. ”
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one. ”
- Terry McMillan- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The ideal voice for radio may be defined as showing no substance, no sex, no owner, and a message of importance for every housewife. ”
- Harry V. Wade- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 783
“ 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- Copy
- 42
“ I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. ”
- Marilyn Monroe- Copy
- 1K
“ Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 679
“ 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- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 607
“ I hate the word housewife; I don't like the word home-maker either. I want to be called Domestic Goddess. ”
- Roseanne Barr- Copy
- 539
“ I'm nice until I have a reason not to be. I work hard and people sense that. But I'm different things to different people. To the middle-aged housewife I'm some-one who looks like a little boy lost; to the people who know only One More Night and Against All Odds, I'm probably this sweet and sensitive guy… ”
- Phil Collins- Copy
- 1.1K
“ 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!'Basically women work alone when they're at home. They think no one is feeling what they are feeling, that no one understands their daily frustrations… ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
- 4K
“ 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- Copy
- 503
“ I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The suburban housewife — she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife — freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment. ”
- Betty Friedan- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone… ”
- Betty Friedan- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives… ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
- 167
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