#sew

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

#away #careful #economy #housewife #like

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#elsewhere #every #face #future #inner

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#allowed #because #competent #consistently #else

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#fantasies #fantasy #guess #housewife #i

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#back #come #go #go away #good

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.' ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#come #decay #dr #housewives #i

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#another woman #busy #helping #her #kept

I preferred sewing to bossing little children. ↗

— Mother Jones

#i #little #little children #preferred #sewing

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. ↗

— Erica Jong

#earth #household #housewives #perhaps #sense

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. ↗

— Florynce R. Kennedy

#asking #everything #garbage #gets #into