Housewife Positive Quotes

We've searched our database for all the quotes and captions related to Housewife Positive. Here they are! All 5 of them:

β€œ
Though it's still not right. I have other best friends, and this is different. Besides, Mike is my absolute best friend." "Yeah, I was going to say..." Mike nodded... "That's right, honey. Felix, you're...something different." "Amen," Mike said. "You're not like a good neighbor or a companion for Saturday shopping, and certainly not like my husband. But you are something more than what the word 'friend' can contain. Mike has my heart, completely, eternally, no second thoughts." She grabbed Mike's hand. "But you have my...say, my liver." Felix frowned, pondering that. "Livers are good. Positively essential, from what I remember of biology. And good eating, if the need arises. Very well. I will be your liver...
”
”
Shannon Hale (The Actor and the Housewife)
β€œ
Several studies show that it is a woman's degree of satisfaction with either the housewife role or paid work, and the continuity of her work experience when she does work, that best correlates with positive outcomes in her children.
”
”
Stephanie Coontz (The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap)
β€œ
Betty Friedan was a critic of the happy housewife fantasy and proposed that women should be liberated from the home. But according to feminist author bell hooks, she did not address who would ultimately take over the woman's duties when she left the home to find happiness. Ultimately, it would be women of color who entered the home to relieve the white woman of her burden. This meant that only some women were liberated from the weight of the happy housewife fantasy and others were relegated to continued attempts and failures at pursuing it.
”
”
Whitney Goodman (Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy)
β€œ
Feminist scholarship has documented that the positive benefits masses of women have gained by entering the workforce have more to do with increased self-esteem and positive participation in community. No matter her class the woman who stayed at home working as a housewife was often isolated, lonely, and depressed.
”
”
bell hooks (Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics)
β€œ
But the majority of our human activities are not evil in themselves; they are neutral. The laborer, the statesman, the housewife, the doctor, the teacher, the engineerβ€”such as these engage in activities that are neither good nor bad. Their moral qualities are imparted by the one who engages in them. So the call of Christ is not away from such things, for they may be sanctified by prayer and faith of the individual, and thus turned into a positive good.
”
”
A.W. Tozer (Man: The Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You)