After Quote by Jill Lepore

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

— Ernest Borgnine

I remember going with my grandmother to the houses she cleaned when I was little, and I would have to stay down in the…

— Dwane Casey

Growing up sweeping the floor at my dad's hardware store and cleaning the bathroom at my mom's dance studio, I never could have imagined…

— Katie Britt

I used to clean my brother and sister's rooms. And I would go to friends' houses and clean their rooms, too.

— Marie Kondo

When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things…

— Rick Astley

I had brothers and sisters and did chores and had to pick up the dog crap in the yard and mow the lawn and…

— Peter Billingsley

I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also…

— S. Robson Walton

I was working with my dad in construction and helping him build houses and all this stuff. I had to learn to do all…

— Carlos Correa

When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to…

— Timothy Spall

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

— Phyllis Diller

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my…

— Vin Diesel

I helped my dad do landscaping from when I was 14, and then every summer when I'd come home for college, I'd play on…

— Chris Lane