"As if I could go out in a scarf and a track suit, like some ordinary housewife," she said.

Pat Kramer is an ordinary suburban housewife and mother whose husband works for an advertising company.

ONCE upon a time there was an ordinary housewife who had three children.

I've made up my mind to lead a different life from other girls, and not to become an ordinary housewife later on.

The woman had been an ordinary housewife, mother of two.

She was now beside her husband like any ordinary housewife.

I come over as the ordinary housewife who wins out in the end.

She was an ordinary housewife until midlife depression led her to take up art.

When the strike ended she did not wish to return to an ordinary housewife.

I can't see why the ordinary housewife shouldn't do it.