Jerry Weintraub Quotes

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

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.

Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.

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

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?

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

A stay-at-home mom is a working mom. Being a stay-at-home mom is a job.

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

I will happily sit at home and take care of the house.

My mother was a housewife, and she had no job throughout her entire life.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless!

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

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

I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

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

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.