Housewife Quotes

• I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

  Bella Abzug

  Funny, Women, Wife

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• A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it.

  Betty Ford

  Jobs, Children, Office

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• All work and no pay makes a housewife.

  Evan Esar

  Pay

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• 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

  Inspirational, Jobs, Husband

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• I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

  Roseanne Barr

  Goddess

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• I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

  Celine Dion

  Jobs, Better Jobs

  "Talking dirty". www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2001.

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• 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

  Mother, Jobs, World

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• The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Skills, Wife

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

  Anthea Turner

  Pride, Ifs

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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

  Kings, Home, Practice

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• I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Memorable, Fantasy

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• 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

  Jobs, Ungrateful, World

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Marriage, And Love, Boards

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• 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

  Jobs, Different, Peculiar

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• 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

  Mother, Wife, World

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• 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

  Stars, Ambition, Dancer

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• Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill

  Jessie Bernard

  Sick, Doe, May

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• I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Wife, House, Reason

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

  Terry McMillan

  Men, Would Be, Kind

  Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.40, Penguin

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Dedication

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Housewife”, Lane, Allen

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• A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.

  Frederic Morton

  Should, Turns

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• No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it.

  Gabrielle Burton

  Corners, Housework

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

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Apples, Noses

  Robert Graves (1959). “Collected Poems, 1959”, London : Cassell

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• He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

  Gore Vidal

  Kansas, Prejudice, Insult

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• 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

  Average, Relax, Attention

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