“Trying to turn a hoe into a housewife is like turning a tiger into a house cat.”
Barava Khashoo
“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do”
Charles Dudley Warner
“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook”
Chinese Proverbs
“"A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband." (on the term "housewife")”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Earth is here so kind [Australia], that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”
Douglas Jerrold
“I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else”
Bella Abzug
