Housework Quotes

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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.

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?

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

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

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.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

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

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

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.

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

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.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

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.

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

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

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

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.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

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

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

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.

You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

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.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

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

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.

Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.

Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?').

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

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

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

Everything truly important is washable.

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

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.