90 Pound Suburban Housewife (Driving in Her SUV) was the song that became the anthem of fossil fuel conscious environmentalists in 2006. Written by Rozanne Gates and Suzanne Sheridan of Westport, Connecticut, 90 Pound Suburban Housewife offered social comment on the trend of American housewives driving large SUVs in the midst of environmental concerns and raising oil prices.
Interest in the song was spurred when it was played on the National Public Radio show Car Talk in January 2006. The song garnered attention from local press and national media such as The Today Show, CNN, Associated Press coverage and radio play on stations throughout the United States.
Gates, an actor's agent for 25 years, was the advocate of acting notables such as Edward Norton, Bronson Pinchot, Christopher Noth, and Joe Mantegna. Gates' community involvement includes executive positions at the Lynne Thigpen - Bobo Lewis Foundation, dedicated to helping young actors in the memory of actors Lynne Thigpen and Bobo Lewis and First Night Westport-Weston.
Sheridan's career has spanned diverse areas of the arts: a musician, vocalist and photographer. In 1975 she won a Clio Award for her vocals on a Pepsi jingle. Sheridan also wrote music for the PBS show The Electric Company. Sheridan works as a photographer from her Westport, Connecticut studio, Suzanne Sheridan Photography.
Famous quotes containing the words suburban housewife, pound, suburban and/or housewife:
“The suburban housewife—she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife—freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother ... had found true feminine fulfilment.”
—Betty Friedan (b. 1921)
“All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning ... I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“This is the first national administration we’ve ever seen where the housewife couldn’t afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn’t afford to grow them.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)