Domestic Obligations Quotes

Nothing in a college education makes a girl either unfit for domestic obligations or masculine in her tastes..

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down.

A woman, then, should not be a busybody, meddling with matters outside her household concerns.

Full time politics is a difficult road. Most women have a home and children to attend to. Whether you're in Glasgow or Ohio. it's tough for women.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

I don't watch ESPN, don't listen to the radio. I just go home and deal with my family.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

You might go home, and keep at home, if you agree not go abroad [out of his home] to [Quaker] meetings. Will you go at home and stay at home?

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

[Campaign life] demands a wife and family, ever faithful, ever admiring, ever at the side of the ideal husband and father.

Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that - unlike my sitcom mother - she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry.

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

I look after two people - my wife and my son.

I had turned into a trophy wife - and I sucked at it. I wasn't detail-oriented enough to maintain a perfect house or be a perfect hostess. I could no longer hide my boredom when the men talked and the women smiled and listened. I wasn't interested in Botox or makeup or reducing the appearance of the scars from my C-sections.

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

My stuff is observational, what people do with their lives from the angle of a man that can't pull it off. So if I talk about having a family, it would be through the medium of a man who is in no fit state to be given a child to look after.