Top 257 Housewife Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.
nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.
Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.
The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.
Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.
My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.
There is a certain amount of conflict that comes with being a 'Housewife.' It is not a comfortable position. If you are comfortable, you aren't doing your job.
I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn't make me feel like I have to be a stereotype. Like a housewife.
All my records - 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix,' 'Wichita Lineman,' 'Galveston,' 'Rhinestone Cowboy,' 'Dreams of the Everyday Housewife' - they all had strings on them.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.
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!
I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.
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.
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared 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.
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.
Some women choose to stay at home and be housewives. If they are happy with it, then it's a wonderful choice. But I know I couldn't do that. I couldn't be a housewife.
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.
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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.
I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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.
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
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.
In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.
One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful 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.
Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
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!
In cinema, you have a captive audience, but to grab the attention of a housewife, who is in the middle of her household work and to keep them gripped to you, is a huge challenge.
I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.
My first thought in life was wanting to be an actor. I was in ballet slippers and on pointe as soon as I could walk. I always wanted to be an actress, not a mother or housewife.
This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.
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.
If there's anything more popular on 'Housewives' than a fight over hair, it's a housewife diving into water. It's a prerequisite for the show, you have to know how to dive, preferably in a monokini.
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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.
I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
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.
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.
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.
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.
I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.
Dad worked as a security guard for United Airlines, and Mom was a housewife who cleaned houses to make ends meet.
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
Being a housewife is not important to me, but I'm never happier than when I come home and shut the door.
I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife fantasy.
there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
That's what we're all doing: paving the way, finding the roles that have the complication instead of the one that's always got it together or the dedicated housewife or the wild one who smokes cigarettes and sleeps with anybody.
