Housewife Quotes - Page 3

• What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.

  Tony Abbott

  Iron, Australia, Needs

  "Abbott accused of being 'incredibly old-fashioned' as he lets off steam", www.smh.com.au. February 9, 2010.

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• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Firsts, Administration, Eating

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• An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

  Coco Chanel

  Laughing, Marketing, Able

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• Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Husband, Hard Work, Night

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• If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

  Kristin Hannah

  Flow, Slides, Lost

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Coffee, Dirty

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams.

  Kathryn Joosten

  Dream, Winning, Thinking

  "Kathryn Joosten obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

  Vivian Gornick

  Heart, Radical Feminism, Choices

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• Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

  James Howell

  Home, Paint, Used

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• Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Mom, Dad, Taught

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• I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.

  Mike Ness

  Retirement, Jobs, Jumping

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• In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.

  Christian Schwochow

  Children, East Germany, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.

  Jim Henson

  Afternoon, Television, Littles

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• Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.

  Candace Bushnell

  New York, Real, Support

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• In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Girl, Mother, Strong

  "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 221), 1970.

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• My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

  Anthony Browne

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

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• 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.

  Max Lucado

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  "Max Lucado, Christian Author, Answers Twitter Followers’ Questions". Religion News Service Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.

  Charles Dickens

  Wise, Character, Interesting

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• 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.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Fun, Hate

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• Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another, "Molly, my dear, I would have bought that new brand of toilet soap if only they hadn't set the body copy in ten point Garamond." Don't you believe it. What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Once Upon A Time, Riding

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• I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.

  Grace Helbig

  Real, Tv Shows, Taste

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• When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.

  Wendell Berry

  Hard Times, Eggs, People

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• If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Children, Home

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sugar, Duration, Jars

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• Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.

  Glenda Jackson

  Jobs, Actresses, Looks

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