Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the…

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

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

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

— Barbara Kolb

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

— Aristotle

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

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

— Penny Kome

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

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

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

— Erma Bombeck

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

— Edna Ferber

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

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

The division [between how much housework men and women do] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that people want,…

— Stephen Marche

There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society…

— Simone de Beauvoir