Marriage Quote by Zsa Zsa Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor turns domesticity into a weaponized punchline: the “housekeeping” a husband supposedly teaches becomes the legal and financial know-how to take the house when the marriage collapses. The joke works because it flips a traditional script without pretending to be virtuous about it. She starts in the register of wifely duty - housekeeping, the feminized labor that’s meant to keep a home running - then swerves into the real subject: property, leverage, and exit strategy.

The line’s intent is mischievous self-mythmaking. Gabor isn’t asking to be read as a victim of patriarchy or a heroine of feminist progress. She’s selling a persona: glamorous, calculating, unembarrassed about marriage as a transaction. The subtext is that romance is the story people tell themselves; assets are the story that matters. “When I divorce” lands like a casual calendar entry, implying divorce is not a catastrophe but a recurring life event, almost a hobby.

Context sharpens the edge. Mid-century celebrity culture rewarded women who could perform innocence while negotiating power behind the scenes. Gabor does the opposite: she makes the negotiation the entertainment. It’s also a crack at men who imagine they’re educating or civilizing their wives; in her version, the lesson boomerangs. The house isn’t just real estate. It’s status, stability, and proof that the “kept woman” can do the keeping.