Housewife Quotations

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

Just because I really am a housewife and a mom, I don't get to watch television,

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

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

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.

In a sense, there were these very bright women who were living these traditional housewife lives, who were kind of, in effect, in collusion with Madison Avenue, ... You sort of feel like Evelyn, in another life, could have been the person in New York City writing these ads.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

I'm really a very fifties housewife.