“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.” WritingYearsFirstsMadeBookThreeFiveLuckyHusbandFive YearsThree YearsHousewife Author:Judith Perelman Rossner
“I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.” WantFeelsKindKidsHusbandMy HusbandKickingHousewifeKicking It Author:Tamar Braxton
“Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.” HardShowsNightHard WorkHusbandMealsEvery NightStoppingHousewife Author:Caroline Leavitt
“Housewives spend more money than their husbands make, so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do.” PeopleThinkingHusbandMore MoneyHousewife Author:Danny Kaye
“To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act is political: the things you do, as well as the things you omit doing; the things you refuse to do; the things you fail to do; the things you say, as well as the things you don't say.” WellsPoliticalFailingHusbandRefuseHousewife Author:Ronee Blakley
“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.” IfsInspirationalFeelsStillsDoneHomeKidsJobsAliveHusbandHeyMy HusbandHousewife Author:Roseanne Barr
“I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.” WorldChildrenHandsCareGirlEvilPoorResultsLaughingHairHusbandWideEnormousKitchenRoughProtectedSoapInadequateBleedingPostureHousewifeGumFacialSlenderFlakesUnruly Author:J. D. Salinger
“I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sweet a room. And the happy young housewife does not know That the woman beside her was his first choice, Till the fates ordained it could not be so.... Betraying nothing in look or voice The guest sits smiling and sips her tea, And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.” KnowsFirstsLooksDoeShowsFacesYoungChoicesVoiceRoomsWifeFateSweetHusbandTeaGuestsBetrayGlancesVisitingHousewifeDronesEnviedKettlesCosyYoung Wife Book:Hardy: Selected Poems Source: Hardy: Selected Poems
“Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.” RoomsListeningBedHusbandNewspapersBreathingStaringHousewifeSpinsters Author:Germaine Greer