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
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 Copy Share Image
A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation. — Robert Breault 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
“They cooked and washed dishes and scrubbed and mopped and dusted and wiped and cleaned the apartment from crack to crevice back… — Matthew Aaron Goodman Copy Share Image
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more… — Susan L. Taylor 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
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
Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax… — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“People very often say to me, 'How did you do it, how did you raise a baby and write a book?' And… — J.K. Rowling 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
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
Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks. — Thelma Harper 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
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
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
