Quotes About Homemakers

#1. Society is still adapting to women being CEOs and professionals rather than homemakers. Because of this, the unfortunate outcome is that we feel we have to be successful at both - in the office and in the home. Striking that balance is different for everyone.

Brit Morin

#2. For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule.

Gloria Furman

#3. In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

Natsuo Kirino

#4. When the prepared foods and drip-dry shirts that had eased the work of homemakers also made it possible for men to live comfortable, if sloppy, bachelor lives . . .

Stephanie Coontz

#5. What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.

Bob Samples

#6. My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

Sandra Lee

#7. Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

R. Heber Newton

#8. I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?

Jayma Mays

#9. Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.

Gloria Furman

#10. Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

Gloria Steinem

#11. Yes, women are homemakers, and the entire earth is our home. Yes, we are here to take care of the children, and every child in the world is one of our own.

Marianne Williamson

#12. I think men were destined to become homemakers. After all, who ever heard of "Ms. Clean" or the "Woman from Glad"?

Randy Glasbergen

#13. If the homemakers of this country don't get the idea into their heads pretty soon that they are not going to be able to hold their own with the rest of the world, with no children, or one child in the family, there's a sad day of reckoning coming.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#14. These displays made it clear that the truly dedicated homemaker matched her comforter to her pillow shams to her washcloths to her bedskirt to her toothbrush holder.

Christina Bartolomeo

#15. This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

Jeff Goldblum

#16. Sons of suicides seldom do well.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#17. [Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we've stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

Emily Matchar

#18. The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

Mark Leyner

#19. A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we've seen with the antivaccination movement.

Emily Matchar

#20. You could eat me. I'm terrified of you.

Wesley King

#21. I have come to realize my need to take the New Testament witness seriously that groaning and grief and feeling broken are legitimate ways for me to express my cross-bearing discipleship to Jesus. It's not as if groaning means I am somehow doing something wrong. Groaning is a sign of my fidelity.

Wesley Hill

#22. In rock climbing, people get strong enough, and then they pick goals they can do with their strengths at that moment.

Tommy Caldwell

#23. Gators are just something you have to accept where I come from. Most don't go anywhere near the houses, even though there are lots of delicious children and dogs there. Every once in a while, though, an alligator has a lightbulb moment and decides to take a stroll and see the world a bit.

Maureen Johnson

#24. I like wearing scarves in my hair because they make me look put together without taking a lot of time.

Lauren Conrad

#25. I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.

Yukio Mishima

#26. It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

Ryan Lochte