Doing Housework Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

Barbara Kolb

#3. While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

Tony Abbott

#4. My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Maureen Forrester

#5. I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

Victoria Beckham

#6. I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

Joan Rivers

#7. I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.

Diane Hendricks

#8. I don't much like to do housework, you know.

Astrid Lindgren

#9. Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

Erma Bombeck

#10. The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics ... Why does it still take as long to clean the house as it did in 1930?

Michael Crichton

#11. Honestly, I understand why ladies are never the heroines of anything, they simply cannot get away from their kitchens long enough to rescue anyone.

Barbara Hamilton

#12. Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

#13. But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.

Brigid Schulte

#14. To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. Who knows what light housework means? One nun's light could be another nun's penal servitude.

Maeve Binchy

#16. My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#17. But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn't share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably. - The D Word

Nora Ephron

#18. No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.

Karin Slaughter

#19. I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#20. She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers.

Jane Smiley

#21. And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

James Levine

#22. Take cooking, for example. Today, women in general are more likely to do housework than men - cooking and cleaning. But why is that? Is it because women are born with a cooking gene or because over years they have been socialized to see cooking as their role?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#23. I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Julie Kenner

#24. No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

Emily Oster

#25. My revulsion kicked in. Sexual domination, sure. Dishes, housework, even cooking for a man, all these for some weird reason repulsed me.

Cari Silverwood

#26. To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

Anais Nin

#27. My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

Petra Stunt

#28. He was here! And he was performing live and in-person girl porn - household tasks!

Gena Showalter

#29. Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

Anna Garlin Spencer

#30. My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

Cynthia Nixon

#31. From time immemorial we've been cleaning up after male messes. When a man does it for a woman, it's called being rescued. When a woman does it for a man, it's housework.

Kate Meader

#32. Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.

Phyllis Diller

#33. I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

Annie Dillard

#34. Eliminating clutter would cut down the amount of housework in the average home by 40 percent.

Gretchen Rubin

#35. Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Francoise Sagan

#36. I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the next, smiling the whole time. I went over there one day and begged her to tell me her secret. It's simple, she said, right after breakfast you light up a joint.

Gabrielle Burton

#37. When a husband and wife both are employed full-time, the mother does 40 percent more child care and about 30 percent more housework than the father.1 A 2009 survey found that only 9 percent of people in dual-earner marriages said that they shared housework, child care, and breadwinning evenly.

Sheryl Sandberg

#38. World." "I love her for being so happy," Carol brooded. "I ought to be that way. I worship the baby, but the housework - Oh, I suppose I'm fortunate; so much better off than farm-women on a new clearing, or people in a slum." It

Sinclair Lewis

#39. I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.

Madhuri Dixit

#40. Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

Stephen Chbosky

#41. Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

Edna Ferber

#42. No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it.

Gabrielle Burton

#43. Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Fawn M. Brodie

#44. Advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

Mary Frances Berry

#45. When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

Sheryl Sandberg

#46. It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

Sheryl Sandberg