Housework Quotes · Page 3

My mum loved housework, she basically had OCD.

— Joe Wicks

A wife is just an attachment men screw on the bed to get the housework done.

— Nikhil Saluja

I think housework and kids is the main reason why mental institutes are filled with a majority of women.

— Raea

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

— Joan Rivers

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

— Annie Dillard

May she share everything with her husband, including the housework.

— Anonymous

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

— Kin Hubbard

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

— Phyllis Diller

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

— Lettie Cowman

“After all, academic reputations were at stake. Home cooking was associated with women, which was bad enough, and housework, which was fatal.…

— Laura Shapiro

“This is part of what I meant about housework. If it isn't important, what is? If it isn't done honorably, where is…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the…

— Marni Jackson

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I watch good content, and films that are educating about life, or other things. I also do all my housework myself and…

— Shehnaaz Gill

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for…

— Nancy Mitford

I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too…

— J. G. Ballard

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least.…

— Emily Oster

“Women now make up almost half the labor force, yet in 2014 the bureau found that women spent about half an hour…

— Angela Saini

My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do.…

— Ian Bogost

It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to…

— Joyce Maynard

No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

The women's movement and the result that I get to benefit from and my generation gets to benefit from is that we…

— Margaret Hoover

Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that…

— Spencer W. Kimball

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

— Robert Breault

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

— Thelma Harper

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

— Lois Gould

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

— Phyllis Diller

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

— Maxine

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the…

— Margaret Mahy

Don't try to be superwoman by doing the entire housework and caring for the baby yourself

— Mazher (@mazher50

After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.

— Linda Sunshine

I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school.

— Toyah Willcox

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still…

— Peg Bracken

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

— Quentin Crisp

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

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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

— Shirley Conran