(10 quotes found)
“I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else”
Bella Abzug
“We do everything together. I'm a homemaker and he's retired. It's not like we're in a contest against each other.”
Rosa Elkins
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
C.S. Lewis
“Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse”
George Bernard Shaw
“...power to fill her life, with happiness, to wake her heart's chords to touch her soul's depths.”
James Russell Miller
“...he lives for her carrying her image in his heart and toiling for her all her days.”
“What this suggests is that if a homemaker or personal assistant helps these frail elders for a few hours a day, they would be less likely to experience medical conditions such as hunger, dehydration, falls and skin problems that occur when disabled older adults do not receive needed help with daily tasks. As our government is under increasing pressure to develop fiscally feasible solutions for caring for disabled older people, we feel providing disabled elders with adequate home-based care should receive further attention.”
Laura P. Sands
“I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.”
Chanakya
“. . . a great deal of wonderful clutter -- all of it carefully ordered and intimately meaningful to the homemaker. She cares little about the intrinsic value of any of her possessions as long as it's something she loves.”
Billy Baldwin
