Monica Hesse Quotes

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

I make more meals than most men do in a week.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

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

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.

As I grew up, I always refused to cook Indian food very vehemently, and to this day, I don't cook chapatis at home. I'd always say, 'Why do I have to do it? Why don't the men do it?'

I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

One summer I was made housekeeper to my own family, making menus and shopping lists. It was my mother's idea of teaching me to be a grown-up. The main thing I remember is my father being so delighted to get roast duck.

Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.

Molly was committing dinner. . .

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.

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

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.