I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.