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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

One of the things that concerned me was the way the system operated: the wife who went out to work got a full personal allowance, but the wife who was working at home got nothing. This was particularly hard on wives who gave up work for a time to bring up children.

If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

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