Paula Creamer Quotes

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.

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.

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

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

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

Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.

I don't do dishes, and I don't cook, either! Everything else, I can do!

I simply love doing household chores and cooking.

Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

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.

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

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

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?

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

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

I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

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

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'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

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.

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 don't see anything degrading about marriage or homemaking, but my husband and I pool the money we earn, along with the jobs around the house.