If you are a housewife, take pride in that.
I'm just a housewife who figured it out and started talking with other housewives.
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.
Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
A home in which the housewife sheds tears will be bereft of all prosperity. This is the ancient conception of the role of women in the home.
My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.
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.
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
I have become a housewife and there is no better job.