Crystal Eastman Quotes

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

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

I'm really domestic.

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

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

I simply love doing household chores and cooking.

I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.

I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.

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

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.

I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

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

I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.

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.

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.

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.

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.

I love to clean. I love to cook.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

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

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

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.