“ Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ”
- Phyllis Diller- Copy
- 372
“ Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 157
“ Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. ”
- Ann Oakley- Copy
- 2.8K
“ When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. ”
- Katharine Whitehorn- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. ”
- Joyce Carol Oates- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy. ”
- Shirley Conran- Copy
- 543
“ The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. ”
- Charlotte P. Gillman- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 255
“ You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. ”
- Phyllis Diller- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours. ”
- Lady Kasluck- Copy
- 645
“ My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce. ”
- Joyce Brothers- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ”
- Crystal Eastman- Copy
- 673
“ At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ”
- Rose Macaulay- Copy
- 458
“ If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.". ”
- Phyllis Diller- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Conran's rule of housework: it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour. ”
- Shirley Conran- Copy
- 3.1K
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