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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jerry Hall

"A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen, and a whore in the bedroom"

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It lands like a slap because it collapses a whole relationship into two services: food and sex. Coming from Jerry Hall, a model who navigated the high-gloss machinery of desire in the 70s and 80s, the line reads less like a manifesto than a pressure-gauge: a blunt summary of what the culture rewarded, what men expected, and what women were coached to perform if they wanted to be chosen and kept.

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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APA Style (7th ed.)
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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Hall, Jerry. "A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen, and a whore in the bedroom." FixQuotes. February 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-women-needs-to-be-a-cook-in-the-kitchen-and-a-96543/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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.

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Jerry Hall

Jerry Hall (born July 2, 1956) is a Model from USA.

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