My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

My father was a manual worker.

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.