[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework. — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour. — Shirley Conran Copy Share Image
You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Stop making excuses for them. … They have eyes! They can see that the toilet paper roll needs changing and the wastebasket… — Jeanne Ray Copy Share Image
I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped,… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time… — Marilyn Sokol Copy Share Image