Joanna Coles Quotes

Most women have jobs that require them to leave the house. A cat is actually a perfect pet. You get the love and companionship of a creature covered in fur, and you don't have to take it for a walk, and it can feed itself. Less maintenance. Surely any man can appreciate the practicality of this choice.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

Between finishing emails, loading the fridge, unloading the dishwasher, getting our son to eat his chicken nuggets and my dog to swallow her pill, it takes approximately 32 days for my husband and I to complete a discussion and 46 to wrap up a fight.

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

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

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

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?

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.

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

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 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.

It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.

I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

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.

To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

I've got four dogs, and I just don't do dog doo. I'm a diva when it comes to that.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

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.

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

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