#housewife

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

— Julia Sweeney

#dream #finally #honestly #housewife #i

In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only a day to go, even by my standards. I spooned the apples into tiny bowls, tossed in some dried fruit and sprinkled them with crumble topping. Delicious, they said that night, scraping the bowls so clean they hardly needed to go in the dishwasher. The fools. ↗

— Helen Brown

#family #feminism #housewife #mother #family

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. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#done #feel #gets #hey #home

‎"Repeat that?" "It's National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Didn't you know?" "Somehow I missed the memo." "You mean, 'Somehow I missed the memo, arrr!'" "Precisely. Arr. So, Mrs. Jack... Er, is that still your name? Or, I tremble to ask, have you adopted a pirate identity?" "Arr, matey, of course I have! It's..." She pulled an eggplant from the grocery bag. "Captain Eggplantier." She needed to stop speaking the first words that popped into her mind. "Captain Eggplanteir." He sounded very doubtful. "That's right. A family name. It's Belgian. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#becky-jack #felix #funny #humor #family

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#cool #feel #garden #global #global warming

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

— James Cameron

#artist #electrical #engineer #father #housewife

I have become a housewife and there is no better job. ↗

— Celine Dion

#better #better job #housewife #i #job

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

— Li Na

#course #housewife #i #really #retire

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

— Bella Abzug

#because #else #homemaker #housewife #i

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#else #far #housewife #housework #i