Ernest Borgnine Quotes

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

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.

Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless!

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

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.

It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

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.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could.

Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

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.

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

I think a man should definitely be helping in the home. There are so many places in our country where it's kind of thought to be a woman's place, and it shouldn't be.

Cooking is a weird thing. In homes, I'd wager it's still women who do more of the cooking.

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

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.

When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.

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

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.