Housework Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

  Anne Roiphe

  Son, Boys, Law

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• Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It's a honey die list.

  Bill Engvall

  Light, Gutters, Honey

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

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• My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or where things are in the kitchen. I have this almost unhealthily obsessive desire to have things in their place and she just totally doesn't. And this is a potential point of conflict, of course.

  Ian Bogost

  Wife, Kitchen, Desire

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

  David Bly

  Family, Inspiring, Success

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• To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

  Golda Meir

  Jobs, Successful, Equality

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• A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Support, Intelligence, Intuition

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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. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Sleep, Dust

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• Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

  Rebecca West

  Real, Drama, Home

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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• It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Wise, Sight, Soul

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.

  Catharine Beecher

  Children, Home, Government

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.26

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• Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

  Isadora Duncan

  Marriage, Intelligent, Feminist

  My Life ch. 19 (1927)

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• A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

  George Meredith

  Beauty, Witty, Treasure

  'Diana of the Crossways' (1885) ch. 1

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• It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

  Anais Nin

  Firsts, Humans

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• I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.

  Tasha Tudor

  Stupid, Cooking, Jam

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• I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

  Margaret Atwood

  Queens, Lying, Taken

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mother, Self Esteem, Father

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Couple, Husband, Divorce

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.127, Knopf

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• We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or televsion to fill up the void... We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our side... Now instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Dream, Hero, Being Alone

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• Even when men do more housework and child care, a lot of times it's still women in charge, delegating, so you have all that noise in your brain. You're on a bike ride or picnic with your family, and it looks like leisure, but on the inside you are keeping track of everybody's emotional temperature, and did I pack this, what are the directions, how much time are we going to be here, do we have anything for dinner? It's like a toilet running all the time.

  Brigid Schulte

  Running, Children, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

  Tony Abbott

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rudd hands PM a crucial lifeline" by Laurie Oakes, www.heraldsun.com.au. August 6, 2010.

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• Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivation

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

  Hesiod

  Guitar, Barns, Literature

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• The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

  Don Meyer

  Inspiring, Keys, Next

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• It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.

  Joyce Maynard

  Spiritual, Teacher, Children

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