Housework Quotes - Page 3

• 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 labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

  Mary McCarthy

  Work, House, Toil

  "The Vita Activa". The New Yorker, October 18, 1958.

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• A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, House, Tasks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Somewhere Else, Advice

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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

  Wes Smith

  Self, Cleaning, Revelations

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• The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

  Lettie Cowman

  Party, Feet, House

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• I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Government, Way, Treats

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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 idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

  Bette Midler

  Ideas, Cleaning, Superwoman

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

  Lucille Kallen

  Pain, Home, Men

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

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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

  Robert Breault

  Home, Purpose, Assuming

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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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