Housework Quotes · Page 4

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

“No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.”

— Karin Slaughter

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

— Bar Refaeli

“Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework”

— Terry Pratchett

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

— Ann Oakley

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

— Marcy Dermansky

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

— Siobhan Fahey

Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the…

— Marni Jackson

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists…

— Cynthia Nixon

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing…

— Fawn M. Brodie

Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets…

— Rebecca West

Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young…

— Crystal Eastman

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand…

— Dave Barry

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

— Veronique Vienne

There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Increasingly, men are realizing exactly that - that having an educated, economically independent partner reduces the pressure on them to be the…

— Stephanie Coontz

The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as…

— Catharine Beecher

I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the…

— Gabrielle Burton

Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

— Joan Rivers

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Evan Esar

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

— Colley Cibber

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

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

— Buwei Yang Chao

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

— Ernest Borgnine

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

— Fela Kuti

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

— Toyah Willcox

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

— Peg Bracken

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

— Shannon Walker

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

— Quentin Crisp

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

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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

— Shirley Conran

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

— Phyllis McGinley