Top 100 Housework's Quotes
#1. Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.
Edna Ferber
#2. Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
Ann Oakley
#3. Housework is the most productive procrastination close to a deadline.
Grant McLachlan
#4. They cooked and washed dishes and scrubbed and mopped and dusted and wiped and cleaned the apartment from crack to crevice back to crack.
Matthew Aaron Goodman
#5. It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#6. Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.
Crystal Eastman
#7. 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
#8. I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
Barbara Kingsolver
#9. I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
Siobhan Fahey
#10. On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
Evelyn Underhill
#11. Housework was comforting. In cleaning and restoring a room, one could assert control. One could even pretend, briefly, that life could be tidied the same way.
Robin Hobb
#12. The cruel irony of housework:
people only notice when you don't do it.
Danielle Raine
#13. As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework.
Sarah Waters
#14. Housework is a cinch, provided your standards are low enough.
Marianne Neifert
#15. Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
Angela Davis
#16. There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp
#17. Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. - Erma Bombeck
Lynn Kellan
#19. Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?
Phyllis Diller
#20. In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.
Lynn Coady
#21. Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb
#22. (At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.)
Ann Jones
#23. Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
Evan Esar
#24. Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.
Shirley Conran
#26. My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.
Ernest Borgnine
#27. Writing is a wonderful way to spend the day. Particularly when the alternative is housework!
J. Mary Masters
#28. Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
Erma Bombeck
#29. Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.
Jessica Valenti
#30. For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#31. When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.
George Akerlof
#32. Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.
Terry Pratchett
#33. I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.
Maxine
#34. A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.
Liane Moriarty
#35. Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing
not career or housework, or one's fatigue
and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
Julia Child
#36. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
Erma Bombeck
#37. Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time company comes.
Marilyn Sokol
#38. My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma Bombeck
#39. This is part of what I meant about housework. If it isn't important, what is? If it isn't done honorably, where is honor? Ista
Ursula K. Le Guin
#40. women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To
Geraldine Brooks
#41. 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
#42. Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.
Thelma Harper
#43. My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
Sara Paretsky
#44. Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#45. Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.
Rebecca West
#46. Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once
children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work
and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.
Susan L. Taylor
#47. I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J.G. Ballard
#48. Close your eyes and pretend you are living with a woman - how would you divide the housework?
Gloria Steinem
#49. Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial arts, all the homey domestic skills a girl needs in this modern world.
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#51. She was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation had not descended to his children, but though the son was not really stupid at practical work, Lallie Joy was in a perpetual state of coma.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#52. 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
#53. I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.
Ben Aaronovitch
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it.
Gabrielle Burton
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. My revulsion kicked in. Sexual domination, sure. Dishes, housework, even cooking for a man, all these for some weird reason repulsed me.
Cari Silverwood
#67. Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
Francoise Sagan
#68. Eliminating clutter would cut down the amount of housework in the average home by 40 percent.
Gretchen Rubin
#69. I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
Annie Dillard
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. He was here! And he was performing live and in-person girl porn - household tasks!
Gena Showalter
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#79. 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
#80. Hungry licked her spoon and then pointed it at me. 'Aren't you forgetting the dishes?' she asked.
'Absolutely not,' I said. 'I'll remember the dishes as long as I live. See you later, Hungry.
Lemony Snicket
#81. I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.
Jeanette Winterson
#82. I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.
Alison Pill
#83. I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
Julie Kenner
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.
Karin Slaughter
#89. You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
Kate Millett
#91. Who knows what light housework means? One nun's light could be another nun's penal servitude.
Maeve Binchy
#92. To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
Chuck Palahniuk
#93. 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
#94. Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
Erma Bombeck
#99. 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
#100. 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
