John Lennon Quotes

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.

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

Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

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

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

I'm so into momminess.

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

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.

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.

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

A stay-at-home mom is a working mom. Being a stay-at-home mom is a job.

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

I do the laundry, cook all the meals, take care of my kids and I love it.

I'm looking forward to just being a mom and being normal.