Lindsay Fox Quotes

My father was a truck driver, made $50 a week. And the reason why I know that so vividly is my Mom used to just constantly give him a hard time for that.

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

My dad worked as a floor manager in a clothing mill in Dombivli and my mom is a housewife.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.

Women who maintain jobs outside their homes … weaken family life, endanger their own marital happiness, rob themselves of man’s protective capabilities, and by consequence decrease the number of children. The principal evil in women’s work is that it alienates the life of the wife from the life of the husband …

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

I believe in the natural order where the man works and the woman stays home and raises the kids. It's what the people want and what they will get if I'm elected governor.

A woman’s good goes to her husband and her bad to her kin.

The common man thinks that the marriage is like appointing one to do his work. The husband thinks so! The husband’s family thinks so. Every one thinks that a girl is coming to the family to do work. Even the girl’s family trains the girl to do the household work

Businesswomen are fine. But they shouldn't be forced to pay for the raising of the family. It's the husband's job. That's the way I see it.

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.

The role of matriarch and patriarch are distinct, and in the King family, we have been blessed with strong examples of both.

My mother was a disciplinarian. She believed that when young girls start to go out with young boys, they get married.

I work on most weekends, so my husband is the executive chef. He is an amazing cook. I love the way he does salmon, and his apple pie for dessert is delicious.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.

I think the thought of a traditional family home is awesome. Traditional roles are becoming a thing of the past, but I think there is something really charming about them.

My mother taught us the man was the head of the family, but the woman was the neck, and you could turn him any way you like.