Callan McAuliffe Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

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

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?

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

I love to clean. I love to cook.

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

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

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

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

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.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

I had brothers and sisters and did chores and had to pick up the dog crap in the yard and mow the lawn and do all the normal things that kids have to do.

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

I think everyone has experienced those boring arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes.

Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.