Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

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 don't get to go out but an hour a day.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

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.

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

I did get to Beersheba [in Israel], but only to prison there. It was actually very nice, with television and free international calls. I would recommend it even over many hotels I have known. It was a shame to leave.

You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

I've never enjoyed being cooped up.

My wife says to do the dishes, and I'm like, 'Yes, baby. I can clean up.'

It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.

I've never liked feeling closed in.

I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.

I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.

Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

I never do the dishes, because my husband has an affinity for it. And I'm also not allowed to touch the coffeemaker.

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

A wedding is not house-keeping.

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

Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.