(12 quotes found)
“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
“I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.”
Robert Graves
“I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else”
Bella Abzug
“Trying to turn a hoe into a housewife is like turning a tiger into a house cat.”
Barava Khashoo
“A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.”
Frederic Morton
“At ten a.m. the young housewifemoves about in negligee behindthe wooden walls of her husband's house.I pass solitary in my car.”
William Carlos Williams
“[In his authoritative book] The Joys of Yiddish, ... an excellent and praiseworthy housewife.”
Leo Rosten
“He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices”
Gore Vidal
