A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.
I have a problem getting all my laundry done, cleaning up and doing all of the normal daily things that a grownup should do.
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Learn how to regulate one's own house well.
If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl wants to be able to keep her house with the least possible strain, and in order to do this she must have good training. This can best be achieved by taking a good course in home economics.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.
My dad is the first to say that Mum deals with the mortgage payments, the bills, the rota, things like that, while my dad is the emotional one who keeps the home together. He's the nurturer, but together, they work perfectly.
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.
Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
I handle my home beautifully. However, I am not just my husband's name.
I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.
My mother was a housewife.
My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House.
In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.
It is not easy to stay home, look after the house and also take care of the child.
A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
My view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House. Can't do it.
The crux of what makes a company Indian is its entrepreneurship. The management needs to be in India.
