Welcome to Maid Quotes, a curated collection of insightful, humorous, and thought-provoking quotes centered around the theme of maids and domestic service. From famous authors to everyday individuals, these quotes offer a glimpse into the complexities and nuances of the maid profession, as well as the broader societal attitudes towards household help. Whether you’re a maid yourself, an employer, or simply curious about the role of domestic workers, you’ll find a diverse array of perspectives encapsulated in these quotations.
Throughout history, maids have played an integral role in maintaining the functionality and order of households around the world. Often working behind the scenes, their contributions are indispensable yet frequently overlooked. Maid Quotes seeks to shine a light on the experiences, challenges, and triumphs of those who dedicate their lives to ensuring the smooth operation of households, as well as the cultural significance of their work. Through the words of poets, authors, and historical figures, we aim to celebrate the resilience, dedication, and humanity of maids everywhere.
Below, you’ll find a collection of quotes spanning various genres, eras, and cultural contexts, each offering a unique perspective on the theme of maids. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, insight, or simply a moment of reflection, these quotes are yours to explore, ponder, and share as you see fit. So, without further ado, delve into the world of Maid Quotes and discover the wisdom and wit encapsulated in these timeless words.
Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from ‘My Fair Lady’ and ‘Pygmalion.’ My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically. Eliza Doolittle
It is quite hard to be a working mother. At the same time, it is hugely rewarding. I have learnt to appreciate working mothers everywhere because millions of women are doing that, including my maid. Konkona Sen Sharma
Struggling to take care of my daughter on my own, I needed whatever government assistance I qualified for – a few hundred bucks a month in food stamps, free school lunches, childcare vouchers and coupons for milk and cheese – while I simultaneously worked as a maid, juggling 10 clients between going to class to put myself through college. Stephanie Land
They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams. Marco Rubio
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
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid. Antonia Fraser
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I’m sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin. Thomas Campbell
I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I’d take her hostage for six months. When you’re 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant – you’ve heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great. Robbie Williams
I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to, you could probably employ a butler or a maid. But I’d like to have a fridge that restocks itself. I don’t know what you’d call that – an automatic restocking pantry? Rachel Shelley
I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn’t is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint. Lana Turner
Whether it’s an FBI agent or a maid, if they want me to wear a pink tutu, I might have a few questions, but I’ll wear it for the sake of the story. Diego Klattenhoff
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. Edward Young
My mom raised me to be clean, so it’s in my nature. I have two little girls, and I’m married, but we’ve got a nanny and a maid. Vanilla Ice
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
Everyday, I get up in the morning and I see a picture of my grandson in newspapers. Now everyone recognizes his maid also! That’s because of the paparazzi. Randhir Kapoor
Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I’m the maid in my house. Denis Leary
My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney’s sarcastic black maid. We could call it ‘Mammy & Me.’ Natasha Leggero
The first job where I actually made money was on ‘Guiding Light,’ the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent – a really bad one, if I remember correctly. Allison Janney
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. Shirley Jones
I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after ‘Far From Heaven.’ I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term. Viola Davis
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. Anna Quindlen
My mother was a doctor and so I spent a lot of time with Hirabai, our maid. One day, she got home and saw Hirabai bouncing me on her lap and cooing, ‘Chunky, chunky.’ She liked the name and it stuck. Chunky Pandey
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost. Evelyn Waugh
There was years when my father didn’t even make a hundred grand – or barely made a hundred grand – and sure, we had a maid, but she only came twice a week. What do you think happened the other five days? You think those dishes washed themselves? You think those clothes got themselves in the hamper? Chael Sonnen
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
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
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
There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you’ve got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn’t you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody’s maid or somebody’s wife or somebody’s best friend? Eve Best
My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his… he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid… a practical maid. No fantasies. Trevor Noah
My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college. Roger Ross Williams
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
I’m obsessed with all things Bengali, man. I love fish, my maid is Bengali, I acted in Bengali and Bangladeshi films. Chunky Pandey
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, ‘I didn’t always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.’ My parents always provided that. Marco Rubio
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. Thomas Nelson Page
A show that I loved as a kid was ‘Maid Marian And Her Merry Men’. It was a really strong female character making fun of the boys, an inversion of gender politics. But it was very funny, too. I always wanted to be one of the village people messing about in the mud and being stinky. Sara Pascoe
I’m a real Kentish maid, you know. Jo Brand
I feel teenage is an age when you should try and spend most of your time with your child. You can’t leave them with maid or servants. Shweta Tiwari
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. Edna Ferber
My grandmom worked as a maid for most of her life, and she worked in the tobacco and the cotton fields, whatever she could get. Viola Davis
I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She’s clever. She does something modern to the sentence. Rachel Kushner
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
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
In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, ‘Meet you at the back door of Stern’s.’ Frank Crowninshield
Because I sometimes shopped in Waitrose, I thought I was actually quite posh. I’ve realised that I’m basically a scullery maid. Even the middle-class people who I meet in parliament, people who live in London – which I think is remarkable because how can anybody afford to live there – seem much, much more middle class than me. Jess Phillips
My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling. Judy Reyes
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 loved all the other movies, and I loved all the other movie stars, but I was very aware of the fact that I didn’t look like Marilyn Monroe – although I still wanted to be Marilyn Monroe. Then Josephine Baker popped up, and she wasn’t the maid – she was the star of the show. To me, it was mind-blowing. Cush Jumbo
I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool. Natalie Wood
Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced. Matthew Green
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. Charles Kingsley
I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage. Diane Keaton
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
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
Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn’t called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless! Mireille Guiliano
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
People think that I grew up going to Barneys for my back-to-school clothes. I went to the Gap. We lived in a nice house on a cul-de-sac, but it wasn’t a mansion. We didn’t have a butler or a maid. Rooney Mara
No lusting after your neighbor’s house – or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don’t set your heart on anything that is your neighbor’s. Moses
I’ve given every maid I’ve portrayed soul and heart. Lupe Ontiveros
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
‘Hollywood maids’ are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn’t want to play a maid because of that ‘hee-hee/grin-grin’ attitude, and he said, ‘Who said I wanted that?’ He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, ‘Oh, well – in that case, I’ll be right there!’ Esther Rolle
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren’t in big houses. They were maids of all work. Sarah Waters
I wrote my first play when I was nine, it was about Robin Hood, from Maid Marian’s point of view. I was a feminist from day one. Carol Drinkwater
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
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one. Julian Castro
I don’t see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute. Miguel Syjuco
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
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. William Blake
An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man’s property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his. Daniel Morgan
As children, my brother Baba and I would be taken to mushairas when my mother Shaukat Kaifi was touring with Prithvi Theatres, because we couldn’t afford a maid. Shabana Azmi
When I’m up on stage, I don’t think about anything except the song I’m singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can’t think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow! Louise Nurding
I remember when I was very young, I had a fever – a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father’s books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me. Dario Argento
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else. Jane Austen
I love to cook and really enjoy cleaning my house. People always tease me about getting a maid. My girlfriend tells me that they are only $40 and will do everything. But that is my time to unwind, put my hair in a ponytail, throw on sweats, and be myself. Amy Weber