Housewife Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Jane Fonda

  Sleep, Together, Roles

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

  Gerda Lerner

  Attitude, Nursing, Nurse

  Gerda Lerner (2014). “The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History”, p.16, UNC Press Books

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• As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

  Alva Myrdal

  Loss, Wife, Suffering

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.191, Psychology Press

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

  Jacques Chirac

  Economics, Accepting, Prepared

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• Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

  John Barrowman

  Play, Sweaters, Guy

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• 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.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, India, Village

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true; that it's as compact and mysterious as a neutron; that it tells a profound story of love and parenthood while invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts, and advice for the housewife of 1896, will you please simply believe me, and read it?

  Michael Cunningham

  Believe, Moving, Book

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• I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Taslima Nasrin and the Struggle Against Religious Fundamentalism". Interview with ISIS, www.taslimanasrin.com.

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• Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Each Day, Television, Might

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• 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

  Men, Soldier, Honor

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• I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
  I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

  Mick Jagger

  Stars, Vegas, Rocks

  "Leader of the brand" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2005.

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• They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Social Media, Cases

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• I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?

  John Lennon

  Baby, Jesus, Jobs

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Success, Business

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.4, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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

  Debbie Harry

  Couple

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

  Keith Floyd

  Patience, Art, Food

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• This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Taken, Blessing

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• I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Dog, Kids

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Julian Baggini

  Choices, Cooking, Dishwashers

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• We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

  Rainn Wilson

  Teenager, Islands, Long

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• I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives of Atlanta.' I am not judging or criticizing those shows at all; what I am saying is the perspective is not necessarily the male perspective. 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is inclusive of everyone.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Basketball, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Jamilah Lemieux, www.ebony.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Song, Years

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• 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

  Mother, Nurse, Expectations

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• 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.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Motherhood

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• How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.

  Luanne Rice

  Wise, Dream, Character

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