Housework Quotes

Housework is no challenge for me.

— Koena Mitra

Housework can kill you if done right.

— Erma Bombeck

Tools have their own integrity.

— Vita Sackville-West

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

— Erma Bombeck

There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.

— Wes Smith

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

— Fawn M. Brodie

Unpaid work never commands respect ...

— Anonymous

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

— Erma Bombeck

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

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

— Thelma Harper

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

— Lois Gould

My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

— Phyllis Diller

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

— Maxine

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

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

— Linda Sunshine

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

When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of…

— Sheryl Sandberg

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and…

— Evelyn Underhill

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

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an…

— Mary Frances Berry

I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them…

— Jeanette Winterson

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for…

— Nancy Mitford

“Women now make up almost half the labor force, yet in 2014 the bureau found that women spent about half an hour…

— Angela Saini

My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do.…

— Ian Bogost

No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

The women's movement and the result that I get to benefit from and my generation gets to benefit from is that we…

— Margaret Hoover

It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to…

— Joyce Maynard

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

— Stephen Marche

What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age…

— Margaret Atwood

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's…

— Virginia Woolf

“In Floral Heights and the other prosperous sections of Zenith, especially in the “young married set,” there were many women who had…

— Sinclair Lewis

What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women…

— Crystal Eastman

“Stop making excuses for them. … They have eyes! They can see that the toilet paper roll needs changing and the wastebasket…

— Jeanne Ray

“I won't even mention the swift, transitory reward of lemon spray wax. Danielle Westerman and I have discussed the matter of housework.…

— Carol Shields

“Both adults have always worked," observes Cox, writing with business journalist Richard Alm. "Running a household entails a daunting list of chores:…

— Michael Medved

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