Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain! — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. — Julie Kenner Copy Share Image
“To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.” — Chuck Palahniuk 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
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this?… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
“Unlike modern feminists, who argue for a redivision of household tasks within the family, increasing men's share of domestic responsibilities, Bolshevik theorists… — Wendy Z. Goldman Copy Share Image
“People very often say to me, 'How did you do it, how did you raise a baby and write a book?' And… — J.K. Rowling 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
I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work… — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“After I gave up sleeping, it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionnaires and they ask what is your profession,… — Tasha Tudor 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
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them.… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed… — James Levine Copy Share Image
I don't want to have anyone else to do my housework. I've always done it myself. I believe you should do it… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are… — Brigid Schulte 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
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image
If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that… — Helen Kieran Reilly Copy Share Image
“They cooked and washed dishes and scrubbed and mopped and dusted and wiped and cleaned the apartment from crack to crevice back… — Matthew Aaron Goodman Copy Share Image
There is a woman who swam around Manhattan, and I asked her, why? She said, it hadn't ever been done before. Well,… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image