Homemaker

The homemaker vacuumed the carpet.

Mary is a full-time homemaker.

The dozen women Boyle profiles in her book, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late Blooming Women, include a homemaker who was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives at age 48, a 47-year-old breast cancer survivor who discovered an eye for photography, and a medical technician who became an anthropology professor.

Einstein was born in the German city of Ulm, a city with a population of about 120,000 inhabitants. There was a plaque in his memory near his first house (which was destroyed during World War II). His family moved to Munich shortly after his birth, and then moved again to Italy. His father owned an electrochemical factory, and his mother was a homemaker who took care of him and his sister Maria.

Forty-seven-year-old homemaker and volunteer museum guide, holder of a master's degree in English, married twenty-three years to a professor.