Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove. — Phyllis Bentley 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
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it. — Gabrielle Burton Copy Share Image
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
A wife is just an attachment men screw on the bed to get the housework done. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing… — Fawn M. Brodie 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
I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets… — Rebecca West 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
My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“A household has to be tended if it is to flourish and grow. Housework is never 'done' in the same sense that… — Margaret Kim Peterson Copy Share Image
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted.… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 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
If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
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
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Something happens in the middle when women are in their 30s, and we can start with an array of things that happen,… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. — Lettie Cowman Copy Share Image
Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks. — Thelma Harper Copy Share Image
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
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