The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it.… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't — Penny Kome Copy Share Image
Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain! — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them. — Buwei Yang Chao Copy Share Image
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children.… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
The secret of surviving housework is simply to do it. Pull the plug on the part of your brain that always wants… — Veronique Vienne Copy Share Image
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed… — James Levine Copy Share Image
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