Samuel R. Delany Quotes

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Women work and feel like they have to take care of so many details. Sometimes they don't get much help from their husbands.

You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.

Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

Housewives run the home and sacrifice a lot, but many people forget that.

A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.

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.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

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.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

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.