Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home. — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place. — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it. — Gabrielle Burton Copy Share Image
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it. — Danielle Raine Copy Share Image
Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof.… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the… — Madhuri Dixit Copy Share Image
Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as… — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Copy Share Image
It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“A household has to be tended if it is to flourish and grow. Housework is never 'done' in the same sense that… — Margaret Kim Peterson Copy Share Image
The division [between how much housework men and women do] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted.… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
“The preparation of food also serves the soul in a number of ways. In a general sense, it gives us a valuable,… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Something happens in the middle when women are in their 30s, and we can start with an array of things that happen,… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
“Housework’s modern status,” writes Ann Oakley, “is nonwork.” A recent study shows that if housework done by married women were paid, family… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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