Famous quotes containing the words suburban housewife, pound, suburban and/or housewife:
“The suburban housewifeshe was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewifefreed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother ... had found true feminine fulfilment.”
—Betty Friedan (b. 1921)
“A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“The suburban housewifeshe was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewifefreed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother ... had found true feminine fulfilment.”
—Betty Friedan (b. 1921)
“Heres to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Heres to the widow of fifty;
Heres to the flaunting extravagant queen;
And heres to the housewife thats thrifty.
Let the toast pass,
Drink to the lass,
Ill warrant shell prove an excuse for the glass.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (17511816)