Emily Post Quotes

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

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

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.

There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.

When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.

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.

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 like being at home and cooking.

I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

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

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

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.

I don't think I'll ever be a housewife.

There's something rather comforting about putting on an apron.

I make more meals than most men do in a week.

Both of my parents worked, so it was my way of helping around the house by making dinner for my family. I fell in love with it.

Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

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 wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

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

I love being at home and cooking and baking.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.

I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.