Housework Quotes · Page 2

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

— Nikhil Saluja

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I think housework and kids is the main reason why mental institutes are filled with a majority of women.

— Raea

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

— Lettie Cowman

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

— Robert Breault

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.

— Thelma Harper

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.

— Linda Sunshine

Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof.…

— Bill Engvall

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the…

— Madhuri Dixit

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as…

— Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the…

— Marni Jackson

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly,…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

— Stephen Marche

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details…

— Mary Blakely

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least.…

— Emily Oster

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

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's…

— Tony Abbott

“Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?”

— Phyllis Diller

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the…

— Margaret Mahy

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

— Maxine

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

— Quentin Crisp

“Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.”

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still…

— Peg Bracken

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

— Erma Bombeck

“Housework is a cinch, provided your standards are low enough.”

— Marianne Neifert

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

— Julie Kenner

There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— Emily Dickinson

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 hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

— Joan Rivers

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

— Buwei Yang Chao

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

— Ernest Borgnine