A Quote by George Akerlof

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. — © George Akerlof
My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.
My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.
My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.
My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house?
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.
My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.
I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.
My father was a bricklayer, and my mother was a housewife. It was complicated, obviously, because of our humble origin, but thank God we were all focused.
My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.
I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
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