Housewife Quotes

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

Guess, Fantasy, Fantasies

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

Work, Home, Husband

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, Job, Made

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
Elizabeth Taylor

Pretend, Ordinary

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

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

Good, Mother, Children

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

Women, Strong, Care

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
Kenny Loggins

Power, Woman, Her

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Cool, Old, Makes

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
Liz Phair

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

Away, Might, Turn

I'm not a housewife in any way.
Courteney Cox

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

Time, Else, Far

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.
Anthea Turner

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

Wife, May, Else

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
Ann Richards

Best, Mother, Live

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

Food, Enjoy, She

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.
Britt Ekland

Time, Mother, Career

I hope to stay on 'Glee,' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer.
NeNe Leakes

Hope, Why, Young

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

Mother, Father, She

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

Mother, Father, Worker

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

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.
Paz Vega

Work, Family, Care

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

Games, Goes, Daughter

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

True, Dream, Finally

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
Meg Tilly

Home, Enjoy, Acting

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.
Josefina Vazquez Mota

Government, Woman, Leader

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
A. B. Yehoshua

Honor, While, Soldiers

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.
Judith Rossner

Time, Husband, Book

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.
Marta Kristen

Mind, Real, Working

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