It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.
Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.
I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
At 'Women's Wear', I always said, 'Get it first - get the bacon.'