Household Responsibility Quotes

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.

I run a tight ship. The kids are responsible for their own chores. Each morning they unload the dishwasher from the night before then collect eggs from our chickens, and I cook those while they get ready for school.

I'm bad with numbers. My husband is the keeper of the records.

You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.

Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.

I'm the homemaker, and that's fine with me because I really like that.

When you say 'the man of the house,' the black woman has been the woman and the man of the house, because black men have so often had to spend all of their time and energy working and trying, at least, to give their families the basic needs. So black women, I find, are not really concerned about women's liberation.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.