“My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.”
“Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the ‘Times of London’ to write a weekly ‘cheer-up’ article in 1937.”
“I’m a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.”
“If you are a housewife, take pride in that.”
“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!”
“I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.”
“I have become a housewife and there is no better job.”
“I’m a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter’s softball games.”
“I’m not a housewife in any way.”
“I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.”
“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 don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.”
“One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I’ve been a very successful housewife.”
“You can look glamorous even if you’re a housewife, any job you have.”
“I think that being a housewife is the most noble profession there is.”
“My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother 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.”
“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.”
“I’m an FFH: a Formerly Fat Housewife.”
“I don’t think I’ll ever be a housewife.”
“I’m finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it’s my dream come true.”
“When I got off ’24,’ pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the ’70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that ’70s pouffy housewife hair.”
“Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.”
“I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.”
“In Swat, there are two jobs a woman’s going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.”
“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.”
“One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of ‘Housewife’ magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column – the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.”
“A woman is a housewife.”
“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.”
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