Housework Quotes

• Housework can kill you if done right.

  Erma Bombeck

  Work, Drinking, Done

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• 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 things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Years, Long

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.30, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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 and over, day after day.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tasks, Cleaning, Endless

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• My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

  Erma Bombeck

  Ideas, Rooms, Cleaning

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• Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

  Edna Ferber

  Men, World, Why Me

  Edna Ferber (1962). “Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life”

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• My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

  Bette Midler

  Ideas, Cleaning, Superwoman

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• A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

  Lucille Kallen

  Pain, Home, Men

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• 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 why.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Book, Mean, Management

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• I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hate, Hero, Kids

  1989 Sexing the Cherry.

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• Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

  Robert Breault

  Home, Purpose, Assuming

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• Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

  Barbara Kolb

  Emotional, Pieces, Sensitive

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• I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

  Julie Kenner

  Justification, Avoiding

  Julie Kenner (2014). “The Trouble with Demons”, p.375, JKInk

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

  Thelma Harper

  House, Matter, Cleaning

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• People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

  Margaret Mahy

  People, Dishes, Truth And Love

  Margaret Mahy (2002). “The Catalogue of the Universe”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Cute, Science

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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. Why should you?

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Block, Fire

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• I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

  Fay Weldon

  Dirty, Clothes, Redemption

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• Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Growing Up, Growing, Finished

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.391, Baen Books

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• If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

  Phyllis Diller

  Doors, House, Enemy

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• The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, House, Important

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• They shared the chores of living as some couples do-she did most of the work and he appreciated it.

  Paula Gosling

  Couple, Appreciated, Chores

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• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

  Angela Davis

  Adjectives, Invisible, Capture

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Race, & Class”, p.222, Vintage

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• At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

  Rose Macaulay

  Life, Stress, House

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• 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 housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Women, Rights, Doe

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