Housework Quotes · Page 3

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

— Fawn M. Brodie

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

— Julie Kenner

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

— Emily Dickinson

There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.

— Phyllis McGinley

“Housework is a cinch, provided your standards are low enough.”

— Marianne Neifert

“To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

One thing in space, just like home: you cannot escape housework. Every Saturday is clean-the-station day.

— Shannon Walker

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

— Shirley Conran

“Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.”

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do…

— Sara Paretsky

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

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

— Angela Davis

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

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

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

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

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

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's…

— Tony Abbott

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

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

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work…

— Anais Nin

My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was…

— Petra Stunt

The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they…

— Barbara Bergmann

“The secret of surviving housework is simply to do it. Pull the plug on the part of your brain that always wants…

— Veronique Vienne

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things…

— Jack Canfield

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

— Quentin Crisp

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still…

— Peg Bracken

I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school.

— Toyah Willcox

An African man should not do anything called housework or cooking.

— Fela Kuti

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

— Ernest Borgnine

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

— Buwei Yang Chao

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

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

— Evan Esar

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

— Colley Cibber

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

— Ben Aaronovitch

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

— Joan Rivers

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

— Robert Breault

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

— Lettie Cowman

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

— Phyllis Diller