Liz Phair Quotes

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

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

I don't think I'll ever be a housewife.

I was raised to take pride in homemaking, and it's something that I always love to do. I know I share that pride with millions of other women all over the world. It's a good feeling, and it makes me happy.

I'm a real housewife.

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

I'm really domestic.

I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.

I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.

I'm getting all domesticated. I feel like Susie the homemaker.

The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been as a housewife.

My mother was a housewife.

The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected to serve, take care of, say 'Yes,' and not ruffle any feathers. Women, in particular, are sometimes not allowed to consider who they are outside of the roles that they play.

I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.

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

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

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

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.