Housework Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Increasingly, men are realizing exactly that - that having an educated, economically independent partner reduces the pressure on them to be the sole provider. Many men are also beginning to understand that participating in housework and childcare can be rewarding. Women with higher education and/or earnings are so much less likely than other women to divorce, that by age 40, they are more likely to be married than any other group of women.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Independent, Divorce, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details is critical.The hostilities that arise over housework...are crushing the daughters of my generation....Change takes time, but men's continued obliviousness to home responsibilities is causing women everywhere to expire of trivialities.

  Mary Blakely

  Crush, Daughter, Home

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• I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

  Corra May Harris

  Art, Stupid, Instinct

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• For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Work, Gaps, Infuriating

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• Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Cheer, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.93, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.

  Alison Pill

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?').

  Marni Jackson

  Clouds, Afterlife, Goes On

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• there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

  Isabella Beeton

  Order, Organization, Organized Life

  1861 The Book of Household Management, ch.2.

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• Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work -- and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Husband, Children, Thinking

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• If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Responsibility, Men, Class

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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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• When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

  Sue Grafton

  Perfect, House, Cleaning

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.180, Macmillan

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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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• [On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

  Lois Gould

  Children, Dust, Half

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• The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.

  Barbara Bergmann

  War, Book, Two

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• Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

  Marcy Dermansky

  Lifetime, Natural, Natural Law

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• After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Stuff, Cleaning

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• When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz

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• This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Children, Facts, Reason

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.108, Del Rey

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• in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Home, Order, Anchors

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Long, People, Meat

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• My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

  Buwei Yang Chao

  Surprise, Affair, Holes

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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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• Something happens in the middle when women are in their 30s, and we can start with an array of things that happen, whether it is - you hope this doesn't exist any longer - but overt discrimination; whether it's subtle gender discrimination, which absolutely does exist among men and women; whether it's the fact that it gets hard to juggle at that point children, housework, etc. But people still have to go home and cook the dinner and clean the dishes and get the beds made and so on. And so, for a whole bunch of reasons, women tend to fall out in their 30s still today.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Children, Fall, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

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