Top 257 Housewife Quotes & Sayings

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

I really am a housewife.

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.

All work and no pay makes a housewife.

I'm not a housewife in any way.

You see, one of the things about being a Housewife, and a New Jersey Housewife in particular, is that most of the drama seems to happen behind the scenes when the cameras aren't around.

I'm really a very fifties housewife.

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.

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

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

I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

I'm not saying a housewife is in any way inferior to a workingwoman. No, she isn't. But as an activist, as a woman, I would say the choice of being a housewife or pursuing a career should be left entirely to the woman and that choice should be respected.

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

My mother was a housewife.

So Carol, you're a housewife and mother. And have you got any children?

I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

For me, the word 'housewife,' because of, like, the 'Real Housewives' - I don't think housewife really means what it used to mean. To me, it's been a little bit overused to the point that it's not as loaded as it might be. I feel like in a perfect world we would say 'American Mom with Kids,' or something like that. 'Mom with Small Children.'

I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.

My mother was a housewife, and she had no job throughout her entire life.

I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.

What is your favorite 'Housewife' line? Mine is, 'Who does that?' We all say it. Every Housewife in every city has said it at least 17 times during her reign.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn't breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children's mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

I don't limit myself. I think that's what this lifestyle allows for you - freedom to sort of do more than the average housewife. The average housewife can't pack up with her husband and go off to Europe for a tour, 'cause usually the average housewife's husband won't let her go.

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

A woman is a housewife.

I'm a real housewife.

I am a full time mother and a housewife. I don't think I need anything else to do.

I don't think I'll ever be a housewife.

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

My dad worked as a floor manager in a clothing mill in Dombivli and my mom is a housewife.

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.

You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

There are three words you'll never hear a housewife say: How. Are. You. Because they don't care.

There's nothing more riveting than a contractually obligated 'Housewife' sit-down.

Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.

[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.

I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.

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

I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

I like girls who are the housewife-type.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house?

I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.'

Oh, hi. I been married thirteen years, and lemme tell you, it's a thrill to be out of the house. I never get out of the house. I stay home all the time. I never do anything fun 'cause I'm a housewife. I hate the word "housewife." I prefer to be called "domestic goddess.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.

I'm an FFH: a Formerly Fat Housewife.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.