Phyllis Diller Quotes

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.

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

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

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

People want to imagine that I have this amazing life. That I never change nappies, unload the dishwasher or have to wait in for the plumber, and that's OK, but the reality is I do do all these things!

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.

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'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

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.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

I do the laundry, cook all the meals, take care of my kids and I love it.

It is not easy to stay home, look after the house and also take care of the child.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

Once you have six children, you're committed.

I'm really domestic.