Frank Pittman Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

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

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

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.

Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.

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

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

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

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

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

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

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.

Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.

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

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

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.

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.