Havelock Ellis Quotes

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

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

I'm really domestic.

Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.

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

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

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

I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.'

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.

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 love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.

I'm getting all domesticated. I feel like Susie the homemaker.

I'm the homemaker, and that's fine with me because I really like that.

Once upon a time, the homemaker was just Mom, but now we've evolved and come to a place where we're celebrating grandmas, grandpas, moms, dads - all the people that keep it safe and clean for our kids - and the overall health for ourselves so we can continue to function and do the variety of things we all do.

Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.

I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.

I'm useless around the house.

I simply love doing household chores and cooking.

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.