I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

- Charlaine Harris

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

I'm an FFH: a Formerly Fat Housewife.

- Jean Nidetch

I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.

- Julia Sweeney

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

- Indira Gandhi

Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.

- Grace Slick

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

- George Akerlof

What people want to know is, OK, what's after modeling? It's not just OK anymore to model until you're 25 and then stop and be a housewife.

- Gigi Hadid

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

- Elizabeth Taylor

I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

- Debbie Harry

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

- Alan Sugar

I'm not a housewife in any way.

- Courteney Cox

I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

- Celine Dion

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

- Bella Abzug

I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!

- Barry Humphries

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

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

- Anthea Turner

Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the 'Times of London' to write a weekly 'cheer-up' article in 1937.

- Alistair Horne

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

- Annie Dillard

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