Children Quote by Mariama Bâ

“A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come…

— Germaine Greer

“But most men don’t expect women to do all the work at home. They just don’t care whether or not the laundry gets done…

— Suzanne Venker

“A (house)wife now performs the tasks once distributed between servants of different rank or undertaken by the maid of all work. Her ‘core’ jobs…

— Carole Pateman

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that…

— Anais Nin

Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that…

— Marilyn French

“The story of women taking over the duties of their husbands in factories and homes during times of war is a familiar one. While…

— Melissa Rank

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands…

— Margaret Mead

As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead…

— Gloria Steinem

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk…

— A. N. Wilson

“It occurs to me that she is not unique--that all women compare lives. We are aware of whose husband works more, who helps more…

— Emily Giffin

“In fact, you get the feeling nowadays that doing anything outside of the home is more honorable than working in the home. Dorothy Patterson…

— Carolyn Mahaney