"I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh"
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The telling phrase is “a sort of a homemaker.” That hedge matters. She wants the permission of the label without being boxed into it, a balancing act familiar to any woman whose competence gets translated into “maternal” whether she asked for it or not. “Homemaker,” here, isn’t apron cosplay; it’s a metaphor for curating a life amid the churn of fame.
Then she swerves: “interested in things remaining fresh.” “Fresh” reads like domestic upkeep (flowers, linens, air), but it’s also brand management and emotional hygiene. In celebrity culture, staleness is death: you get filed away as a type, a decade, a face. Bisset frames freshness as maintenance rather than mania, suggesting renewal as a daily practice, not a desperate comeback narrative. The subtext is surprisingly modern: stability isn’t the opposite of reinvention; it’s the system that makes reinvention survivable.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bisset, Jacqueline. (2026, January 18). I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-very-nurturing-kind-of-person-and-a-sort-of-12520/
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Bisset, Jacqueline. "I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-very-nurturing-kind-of-person-and-a-sort-of-12520/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-very-nurturing-kind-of-person-and-a-sort-of-12520/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.


