- What do your parents do?
- My father is a turner and my mother is..
- Your mother..
- ... is a housewife
- You hesitated?
- l meant that she's also a princess.
- What?
- Yes, initially she was a princess. Her ancestors come from a royal family.
- Annen ve baban ne iş yapıyor?
- Babam tornacı ve annem...
- Annen...
- ... ev hanımı.
- Duraksadın?
- Yani... aynı zamanda bir prenses.
- Ne?
- Evet, önceden bir prensesmiş. Ataları soylu bir aileden geliyor.
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
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky. Judith Rossner
The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. Kenny Loggins
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. Graham Greene
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? A. B. Yehoshua