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Housewife Quotes

Quotes on home life, reinvention, and dreams

Several of these housewife quotes describe reinvention — one details becoming a novelist After reading a historical romance and deciding to write one herself as a Scarborough housewife.

In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It took me a year to complete the manuscript. I was a forty-year-old Scarborough housewife who knew no one...

Quotes by Virginia Henley

I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife fantasy.

Quotes by Sandra Tsing Loh

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Quotes by Robert Powell

A woman is a housewife.

Quotes by Ramzan Kadyrov

After Quotes

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

Quotes by Peter Mayle

One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a...

Quotes by Mary Berry

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Marilyn Monroe

Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.

Quotes by Li Na

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

Quotes by Leslie Hope

Ale Quotes

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.

Quotes by Laurie Simmons

I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.

Quotes by Katharine Gun

I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.

Quotes by Julia Sweeney

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

Quotes by James Cameron

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

Quotes by Graham Greene

Fantasy Quotes

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.

Quotes by George Akerlof

I think that being a housewife is the most noble profession there is.

Quotes by Gavin McInnes

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

Quotes by Elizabeth Taylor

I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

Quotes by Debbie Harry

I'm not a housewife in any way.

Quotes by Courteney Cox

Father Quotes

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

Quotes by Charlaine Harris

Frequently Asked Questions

What career change does one housewife quote describe?
One speaker recalls being a forty-year-old Scarborough housewife who, inspired by a historical romance novel, decided to write her own and spent a year completing the manuscript.
Is housewife life described positively in these quotes?
Largely yes — one calls being a suburban housewife their dream come true, and another mentions a high boredom threshold as a helpful trait.
Is there a quote connected to a magazine called "Housewife"?
Yes, one recalls being asked to write a cookery column for a magazine literally titled "Housewife" after its editor left on a press trip.
Do these quotes suggest housewife life is limiting?
Not particularly — most frame it as a starting point for other pursuits, like writing, rather than a limitation.
What everyday skill is mentioned in one of the quotes?
Recipe testing is mentioned as one of the speaker's first jobs, connected to the housewife-focused magazine.

Others embrace the role directly, calling suburban housewife life a dream come true, while one traces a career testing recipes for a magazine literally named 'Housewife,' a small Fantasy made real.