Marcelene Cox Quotes

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

Homemaking is whatever you make of it. Every day brings satisfaction along with some work which may be frustrating, routine, and unchallenging. But it is the same in the law office, the dispensary, the laboratory, or the store. There is, however, no more important job than homemaking.

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.

Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.