Housework Quotes · Page 3

The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

— Don Meyer

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.

— Danielle Raine

No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it.

— Gabrielle Burton

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

— Erma Bombeck

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

— Terry Pratchett

I think housework and kids is the main reason why mental institutes are filled with a majority of women.

— Raea

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

— Joan Rivers

A wife is just an attachment men screw on the bed to get the housework done.

— Nikhil Saluja

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof.…

— Bill Engvall

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

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

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

“After all, academic reputations were at stake. Home cooking was associated with women, which was bad enough, and housework, which was fatal.…

— Laura Shapiro

“This is part of what I meant about housework. If it isn't important, what is? If it isn't done honorably, where is…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future…

— Jessica Valenti

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

Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought…

— Carrie Fisher

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

Even when men do more housework and child care, a lot of times it's still women in charge, delegating, so you have…

— Brigid Schulte

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner…

— Christine Pelosi

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires…

— Rebecca West

Most women without childrenspend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework and child…

— Arlie Hochschild

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

Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time…

— Marilyn Sokol

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

— Aristotle

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

— Edna Ferber

Housework is what a WOMEN done that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it...

— Anonymous

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

— David Bly

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't

— Penny Kome

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

— Isabella Beeton

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

— Sue Grafton

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

— Phyllis Bentley

I am mostly at home and I do my housework, I read and I love watching documentaries. In short, I love staying…

— Shoojit Sircar

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it

— Dottie Archibald

You wont get anything until you try with your heart and love the work while doing then you will enjoy...

— Arun Chandu

Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it

— Dopekidd

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

— Lynn Coady