Housework Quotes - Page 6

• there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sugar, Duration, Jars

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• Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.

  Rebecca West

  Hands, Civilization, Hatred

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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• Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.

  Melinda Gates

  Girl, Fall, School

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.

  Crystal Eastman

  Business, Men, Public Opinion

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Uncles, Writing, Achievement

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling--
  Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

  Emily Dickinson

  Swings, Fearless, Ceilings

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• [To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Would Be, Plumber, Needed

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• I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people who intensify it seem to get quite a lot of interest out of that, too, and are as preoccupied as pirates.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  People, Pirate, Choices

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There's no question about that. There's only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week?

  Lucille Kallen

  Weekend, Men, Kitchen

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• Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

  Isabella Beeton

  Spring, Winter, Dust

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• As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Eight, Want, Lobotomy

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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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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• advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

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• As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

  Alva Myrdal

  Loss, Wife, Suffering

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.191, Psychology Press

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• My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Girlfriend, Work, Demand

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• It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Fear, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

  Erma Bombeck

  Brain, Done, Damage

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• Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

  Francoise Sagan

  Gambling, Ferrari, Whisky

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• True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself.

  Toni Morrison

  Jobs, Children, Fall

  Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.24, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Nannies, Lords And Ladies

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.29, Random House

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• I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

  Walter Wager

  Jobs, Work, Native American

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• I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

  Maxine

  Mirrors, Giving, Incentives

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• Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Majority, Care

  "My big feminist wedding" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2009.

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• My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

  Petra Stunt

  Crazy, Parent, House

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• Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

  Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

  Men, Surprising, Repetitive

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