Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like…

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

“He had discovered Time and Death and God.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— J. G. Ballard

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

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

— Edna Ferber

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

— Erma Bombeck

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…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Nikhil Saluja

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't

— Penny Kome

I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

— Aristotle

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

— Barbara Kolb

I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all…

— Carrie Fisher

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -…

— Virginia Woolf