Anne Sexton Quotes

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

I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.

I'm really domestic.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.

When I go home, I still have to clean my room; I still have to do the dishes. We have somebody come every now and then to do that stuff, but my mom still makes me clean before she comes.

I don't do dishes, and I don't cook, either! Everything else, I can do!

I simply love doing household chores and cooking.

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

I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

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.

I do the laundry. I do the shopping. I do the dishes.

I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

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

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

I love to clean. I love to cook.

I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.

It's not difficult to take care of a child; it's difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Trying to clean up the kitchen after you've had a baby is a nightmare because you have to wait for the baby to be asleep, you're exhausted, and you really don't want to clean up the kitchen now.

I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things.

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