Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time… — Marilyn Sokol Copy Share Image
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Housework is what a WOMEN done that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove. — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't — Penny Kome Copy Share Image
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Even when men do more housework and child care, a lot of times it's still women in charge, delegating, so you have… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Housework has been reduced to a minimum. Even without servants, there is scarcely enough to do to keep women occupied eight hours… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
“Both adults have always worked," observes Cox, writing with business journalist Richard Alm. "Running a household entails a daunting list of chores:… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
“Stop making excuses for them. … They have eyes! They can see that the toilet paper roll needs changing and the wastebasket… — Jeanne Ray Copy Share Image
“In Floral Heights and the other prosperous sections of Zenith, especially in the “young married set,” there were many women who had… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“I won't even mention the swift, transitory reward of lemon spray wax. Danielle Westerman and I have discussed the matter of housework.… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
