Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

Boys dont make passes at female smart asses.

If the family were a boat it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

When men are oppressed its a tragedy when women are oppressed its a tradition.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room board and love except the housewife.

A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Housework, if it is done right, can kill you.

I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.