Hope Davis Quotes

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

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

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?

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

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.

Many men today can cook, or at least order takeout, and know where and how to hire domestic help, perhaps with refreshing clarity and less anxiety than ever-conflicted mothers.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

Housewives run the home and sacrifice a lot, but many people forget that.

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

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.

What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

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.