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The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from. (Quote by - Patricia C. Beudoin)

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one. (Quote by - English proverb)

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one. (Quote by - Terry Mcmillan)

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)

Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices (Quote by - Gore Vidal)

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention. (Quote by - Eva Gabor)

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. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)

I have become a housewife and there is no better job. (Quote by - Celine Dion)

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. (Quote by - Marta Kristen)

I call myself a 'domestic goddess. (Quote by - Rosanne Barr)

To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)

I didn't care if she worked. I never cared if Liza worked. I said, be a housewife. Go out and shop. Take the credit card. (Quote by - David Gest)

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife. (Quote by - Frederic Morton)

If you are a housewife, take pride in that. (Quote by - Anthea Turner)

There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother. (Quote by - Eleanor F. Rathbone)

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband." (on the term "housewife") (Quote by - Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

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. (Quote by - Martha Plimpton)

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husbandgets home from work, then hey, I've done my job. (Quote by - Roseanne Barr)

To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations. (Quote by - Barbara Bergmann)

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. (Quote by - Ann Oakley)

Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples. (Quote by - Robert Graves)

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

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