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“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.”

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Author:Eleanor Rathbone

“I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.”

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Author:Bella Abzug

“I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.”

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Author:Wilma Scott Heide

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

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Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.”

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“You're sitting there, with your wife and your baby and your smiling dog, and you're watching Real Housewives getting into fistfights on TV. And you go, 'How great is my life? I'm so happy right now.'”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.”

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Author:Betty Friedan