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 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
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. — Ann Oakley 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
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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the… — Gabrielle Burton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof.… — Bill Engvall 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
You wont get anything until you try with your heart and love the work while doing then you will enjoy... — Arun Chandu Copy Share Image
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. — Erma Bombeck 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
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. — Terry Pratchett 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
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least.… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished. — Lois McMaster Bujold 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
I think housework and kids is the main reason why mental institutes are filled with a majority of women. — Raea Copy Share Image
And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
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