Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

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

I'm really domestic.

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

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

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

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

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

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

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.

Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.

It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things.

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 was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

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.

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.