Quote by Diana Gabaldon

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

— Diana Gabaldon

“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Cleaning requires an attention to detail and a concern for the superficial that women are both pressured to internalize and then despised for possessing.”

— Jessica Shines

“It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes:”

— Christina Stead

“It was never reasonable or fair that women should shoulder the burden of household management, but it is possible that in an effort to…

— Julianne Malveaux

“However we resolve the issue in our individual homes, the moral challenge is, put simply, to make work visible again: not only the scrubbing…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Oh, pfft. I manage. With any paper one sticks under their nose and plenty of self-possession, one can get through, Especially a woman. Sometimes…

— Kate Quinn

“If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be…

— Emily Matchar

“But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social hierarchy. Women…

— Julie Zeilinger

“Women, as usual, were expected to behave better than men, and inevitably attracted criticism for doing things that men were licensed to do with…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“His manly duties covered the gardening, the bulb-changing and general maintenance, the woman did the washing, ironing, cleaning.”

— Milly Johnson