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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• 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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• The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Horse, Men, House

  Women and Economics ch. 1 (1898)

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• Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Men, Activity, Competent

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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

  Lucille Kallen

  Pain, Home, Men

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

  Phyllis Diller

  Growing Up, Children, Silly

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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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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• 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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• Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

  Erica Jong

  Artist, Earth, Housewife

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

  Ann Oakley

  Inspirational, Self, Cleaning

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.

  Kate Millett

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• I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Mother, Cooking, Doe

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• Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

  Erma Bombeck

  Lazy, Literature, Ifs

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• If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Wall, Writing, Space

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

  Evan Esar

  Inspirational, Home, Doe

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

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Hilarious, Hate

  Quoted in Michele Brown and Ann O'Connor, Woman Talk (1984)

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• Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

  Erma Bombeck

  Memorable, Futility Of Life, Terrorism

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• There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.

  Wes Smith

  Self, Cleaning, Revelations

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