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
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
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
Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter… — Isabella Beeton 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
Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does… — Hilda Scott 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
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
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them.… — Vladimir Lenin 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
The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they… — Barbara Bergmann 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
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionnaires and they ask what is your profession,… — Tasha Tudor Copy Share Image
Increasingly, men are realizing exactly that - that having an educated, economically independent partner reduces the pressure on them to be the… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that… — Helen Kieran Reilly Copy Share Image
If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and… — Kathleen Turner 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
Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're… — Alice Munro 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
Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the… — Corra May Harris 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
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
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
I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work… — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I don't want to have anyone else to do my housework. I've always done it myself. I believe you should do it… — Lorraine Hansberry 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
If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this?… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and… — Anne Roiphe 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
“Unlike modern feminists, who argue for a redivision of household tasks within the family, increasing men's share of domestic responsibilities, Bolshevik theorists… — Wendy Z. Goldman Copy Share Image
The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
Most women without childrenspend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework and child… — Arlie Hochschild 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
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