Form Quote by Rebecca West

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of…

— Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive…

— Alexander Hamilton

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that…

— Anais Nin

Labor: a powerful medicine.

— Saint John Chrysostom

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

— Ann Oakley

I believe that work is essential to human well-being.

— Moshe Vardi

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

— Sakyong Mipham

“Labor is the activity which corresponds to the biological process of the human body, whose spontaneous growth, metabolism, and eventual decay are bound to…

— Hannah Arendt

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

— Edith Sitwell

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

— Katharine Graham

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

— Samuel Richardson