"A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen, and a whore in the bedroom"
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The shock value does a lot of work. “Cook” and “whore” aren’t neutral roles; they’re loaded archetypes that yank domestic labor and erotic labor to their most transactional extremes. The kitchen is care with an apron on, the bedroom is care with a sneer attached. The slur isn’t incidental. It weaponizes sexual confidence by framing it in the language of degradation, suggesting that even female desire is only legible when it’s packaged as male entitlement.
Subtextually, it’s a survival tip disguised as cynicism: don’t just be beautiful; be useful. In the celebrity ecosystem Hall came up in, women were often valued for how seamlessly they could toggle between public glamour and private servicing. The line echoes the old “Madonna/whore” split, except it tries to “solve” it by demanding both at once - purity in one room, porn in another.
If there’s any bite beyond misogyny, it’s the uncomfortable honesty of how narrowly “ideal womanhood” gets defined under patriarchal romance: as a performance with two sets and no backstage.
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Hall, Jerry. (2026, February 17). A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen, and a whore in the bedroom. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-women-needs-to-be-a-cook-in-the-kitchen-and-a-96543/
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"A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen, and a whore in the bedroom." FixQuotes, 17 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-women-needs-to-be-a-cook-in-the-kitchen-and-a-96543/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.








