Housewife Mother Quotes

#1. If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

Betty Friedan

#2. I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

Taslima Nasrin

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

James Cameron

#4. I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.

Max Lucado

#5. I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.

Michelle Paver

#6. I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.

Kelly Reilly

#7. My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.

George Akerlof

#8. There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.

Eleanor Rathbone

#9. Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

Ann Oakley

#10. I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

Britt Ekland

#11. She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

Danielle Steel

#12. A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

Sylvia Plath

#14. My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.

Andrea Barrett

#15. I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.

Kiki Dee

#16. So Carol, you're a housewife and mother. And have you got any children?

Michael Barrymore

#17. I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

Ann Richards

#18. My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

Pedro Almodovar

#19. I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

Marcia Gay Harden

#20. I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Robert Powell

#21. My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

Anthony Browne

#22. I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.

Anthony Jeselnik

#23. I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

Tawni O'Dell

#24. Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Katharine Hepburn

#25. My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

Alan Sugar

#26. In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children ... with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.

Fritz Sauckel

#27. My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

David Bowie

#28. My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife -
She married a house?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies - but I don't use that kind of language in public.

Marion Zimmer Bradley