34 Maid Quotes for You to Enjoy

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents. Agnes Smedley

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. Alice Walker

Day Me Mother Made College Suitcase Gave Typewriter Machine Sewing Week Maid Had Bought Hours She Did Working Away

I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life. Gina Rodriguez

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My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling. Judy Reyes

Worth Mother Telling Maid Very Stories Hard-Working

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat. Lily Tomlin

I won't say there's disrespect for the Indian home cook, but I was never exposed to that. Even in a semi-urban Indian family, you will find a maid. And once you meet these people, you realise they cook purely out of passion or love for the family. Ranveer Brar

If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home. Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Home Me You World Strong Whatever Hungarian Out Possible Jobs Given Cast Voice Voice Lessons Maid Opens Accent Another Always Leaves Up Very Iron Being Different Whereas Coach European Lessons Rehearse

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook. Daniel Woodrell

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house. Denis Leary

Love Great Machines Laundry Maid House Washing

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid. Gina Rodriguez

Mom Will Daughter Maid Stereotypes Also Continue Perpetuate Why Play

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling. Jane Campion

Best Control Imagination Secretary Those Out Rested Eaten Thrilling Directors Maid Feel Like Always Am Surpass Times Ask Your Organizer Moments Things Set

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people. Karen Black

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Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that. Kathryn Stockett

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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. Lafcadio Hearn

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My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. Marco Rubio

Mom Impossible Made Big Few Rich Possible Hopelessness Maid Never Had Clerk Because Were Been Stock Decades Just Them Us Successful Bartender Dad Things

I think that anyone who denies their heritage doesn't deserve their destiny. My grandmother was a maid. She put nine children - eight of them - through college; I did not finish college. Nell Carter

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Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid. Peter Agre

Depression Age Mother Lost Farm Herself Maid Had Support She Because Place Grandfather Worked Her Assistant

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