Domestic Dynamics Quotes

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

I think everyone has experienced those boring arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes.

My wife usually gives me a project... I like going to work because I can be the boss for once.

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

Family things are always tough, and they're always tough to address, let alone on a TV show.

I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.

Few men are admired by their servants.