Mary Stocks Quotes

Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.

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.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

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

I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.

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

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

It was seldom suggested that women’s drudgery could be decreased in the meantime by the simple expedient of sharing it with men.

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

I will happily sit at home and take care of the house.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

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

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

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

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.

To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

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.

I've always gone out with men who wanted a cook all the time.

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

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?