The Breadwinner Quotes

#1. If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

Katherine Jenkins

#2. If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

Charisma Carpenter

#4. In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

Ezra Taft Benson

#5. I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs.

Teri Hatcher

#6. We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him. But

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

Dorothy Fields

#8. I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

Shirley Bassey

#9. Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#10. Divorce can be tough when the woman is the breadwinner. But the Lord can make the dark light.

Betty Wright

#11. Of course I do. I love you touching me, Ana. I'm like a starving man at a banquet when it comes to your touch.

E.L. James

#12. She's trollin' for a breadwinner and uses a short skirt for bait.

Sharon Gillenwater

#13. My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get better for at least six months, so I left school early to become the family breadwinner.

Brian Blessed

#14. The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.

Martha Stewart

#15. My teen-beat afternoon clarified everything for me. I had to get back to where I was who I was, a son of New Jersey, gunslinger, bar band king, small-town local hero, big fish in a little pond and breadwinner. Right

Bruce Springsteen

#16. If you lose your integrity, you've lost everything.

Larry Gelwix

#17. (voice) ... it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#18. If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Shepherd Mead

#19. Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

Merle Shain

#20. When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

Diane Lane

#21. The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

Thomas Perez

#22. A man has to define himself as a breadwinner, as opposed to thinking that well, women used to be caregivers who also wanted to have careers; men have always had careers, so why shouldn't they also want much more family time?

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#23. A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.

Laura Wasser

#24. I see that you've
had the non-pleasure of meeting my sister.Jordo, this is
Rylann Pierce.
Jordan raised an eyebrow pointedly at Kyle.
He glared.
An entire dialogue seemed to pass between them

Julie James

#25. Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we're doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.

Ann Romney

#26. I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.

Frances O'Grady

#27. I'm looking forward to sproglets but, as I'm the main breadwinner, I feel I ought to capitalise on my career for a bit longer. Mother keeps telling me I should go and freeze some eggs. Not terribly romantic, is it?

Honeysuckle Weeks

#28. Your father ... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.

Susan Cooper

#29. There was a time when only men could provide or work, and still a lot of countries are like that. But there's a price to be paid for that when you're expected to be the full-time caretaker and you're expected to be the full-time breadwinner.

Patricia Arquette

#30. If you dress like a movie star, you have me.

Steven Cojocaru

#31. He must be a grown man, stolid, reliably fulfilling his duties, married perhaps, someone's breadwinner - in other words, one of the living dead.

Pessoa, Fernando

#32. Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

Colm Toibin