I'm "Only" a Housewife?

Ready for the Oven by Jennie Brownscombe

“I'm only a housewife, I'm afraid."

How often do we hear this shocking admission. I'm afraid when I hear it I feel very angry indeed.

Only a housewife: only a practitioner of one of the two most noble professions (the other one is that of a farmer); only the mistress of a huge battery of high and varied skills and custodian of civilization itself.

Only a typist, perhaps! Only a company director, or a nuclear physicist; only a barrister; only the President!

When a woman says she is a housewife she should say it with the utmost pride, for there is nothing higher on this planet to which she could aspire.”

~ John Seymour (aka "Father of Self-Sufficiency")
Excerpt from Forgotten Household Crafts: A Portrait of the Way We Once Lived

"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies."

~ Proverbs 31: 10