"...The thought filled her with gratitude that she had such a man who would think to cook a meal. Most husbands would never do that - would regard it

as beneath their dignity to work in the house - but he was different. It was as if he knew what it was like to be a woman,
to have all that cooking to do, for the rest of one's life, a whole procession of pots and pans,
stretching out into the distance, seemingly endless."
Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life