Bobby Riggs Quotes

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.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

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.

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 work and feel like they have to take care of so many details. Sometimes they don't get much help from their husbands.

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

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

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

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?

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to 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.

At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

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!

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

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

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

I do the laundry, cook all the meals, take care of my kids and I love it.

Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.

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

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

I've always gone out with men who wanted a cook all the time.

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

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!