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

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

— Phyllis Diller

It's hard to be happy for someone when you know deep down they'd kill you if they had the chance.

— Dane Cook

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

— Phyllis Diller

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have…

— Phyllis Diller

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