Browsing Topic Best Homemaker Quotes

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

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

Most of us don’t have mothers who blazed a trail for us–at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women’s movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums–what should they be? how should they act?–that became our uncertainties.

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.

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

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

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.

I’m a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I’m just interested in things remaining fresh.

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?

His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like ‘the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.

The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.

[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.

In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother – and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

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

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

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.

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn’t find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person’s permission I had to get was my husband’s.

I’m a real Suzy Homemaker.

Every character that I play, even if it’s a homemaker, there is an inherent, innate strength in her – you can find strength in every facet of a female personality. It doesn’t just come from the physical strength of a woman.