Housework Quotes

103 quotes by 90 authors

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. — Ambrose Bierce
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares.… — Erma Bombeck
Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. — Erma Bombeck
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. — Sara Paretsky
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the… — James Levine
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases… — Vladimir Lenin
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the… — Virginia Woolf
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over… — Simone de Beauvoir
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. — Fawn M. Brodie
My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
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 a bad thing… — Tony Abbott
You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin. — Kate Millett
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. — Erma Bombeck
The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even… — Dave Barry
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean… — Katharine Whitehorn
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always… — Maureen Forrester
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn. — Hesiod

Who Wrote These Housework Quotes

90 authors contributed a total of 103 Housework Quotes, led by these top contributors: