Cleaning Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“A household has to be tended if it is to flourish and grow. Housework is never 'done' in the same sense that gardening is…

— Margaret Kim Peterson

Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to…

— Marni Jackson

Repetition and ritual and their good results come in many forms: changing the oil filter, wiping noses, going to meetings, picking up around the…

— Gil Fronsdal

“The secret of surviving housework is simply to do it. Pull the plug on the part of your brain that always wants to negotiate…

— Veronique Vienne

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be…

— Mary McCarthy

Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.

— Thelma Harper

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when…

— Elizabeth Bowen

It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings…

— Cheryl Mendelson

I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

— Joan Rivers