A Beautiful woman (n.) is treated as a piece of luck she is expected to keep in good condition.
A Beautiful woman (n.) cannot tell whether a room is being kind or being interested.
A Beautiful woman (n.) is always best when looking a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
A Beautiful woman (n.) is hard, if not impossible to snub - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.
A Bride (n.) plans an afternoon for a year and remembers ten minutes of it.
A Bride (n.) is looked at all day and asked nothing.
A Bride (n.) is looked at all day by people who never once ask her a question.
A Bride (n.) spends a year producing an event she experiences for six hours and remembers in photographs.
A Career woman (n.) runs two full-time shifts and gets a title for one.
A Career woman (n.) is asked at every interview who is watching the children.
A Career woman (n.) is what a woman is called for doing what a man is just called employed for.
A Career woman (n.) is a worker who needs an adjective the men never did.
A Housewife (n.) is the person who makes a household look like it runs itself.
The Housewife (n.) is the only laborer in the world who is expected to work for room, board, and love.
Housewife (n.) is a less preferable term than its alternative: "domestic goddess.".
Housewife (n.) is a profession, just like being a doctor or a lawyer. However, if you have several children, it's more like being an Indian chief.