Emily Oster Quotes

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

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.

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

My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly.

My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

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

My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.

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.

Americans have made the common sense discovery that it is inefficient for women to bake their own bread and brew their own beer when the lot can be produced more cheaply by the cooperative cooking establishment.

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

I never do the dishes, because my husband has an affinity for it. And I'm also not allowed to touch the coffeemaker.

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

Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

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.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

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