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“I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.”

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Author:Scott Pruett

“[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.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.”

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Author:Sophia Tolstaya

“Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.”

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Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.”

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.”

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Book:The sermon on the mount and the magnificat

Source: The sermon on the mount and the magnificat

“The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy.”

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Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse

“I was surprised to learn that doing household chores qualifies as romantic for most of you [women]. That's exactly why you should never hire a butler if you strike it rich - the minute that Jeeves starts unloading the dishwasher without being asked, your wife is going to start humping his leg.”

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Author:Scott Adams