Quotes and Sayings about Housework
"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Housework, Right, Will)
"Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."
- Fawn M. Brodie
(Related: Cooking, Housework, Teaching)
"There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."
- Quentin Crisp
(Related: First, Housework, Years)
"I think housework is the reason most women go to the office."
- Heloise Cruse
(Related: Women, Housework, Office, Reason)
"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"
- Phyllis Diller
(Related: Chance, Housework)
"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."
- Evan Esar
(Related: Housework, Woman)
"I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking."
- Siobhan Fahey
(Related: Life, Mother, Cooking, Housework, Waste)
"My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Mother, Church, Children, Cooking, Housework, Voice, Woman)
"Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine."
- Barbara Kolb
(Related: Music, Housework)
"And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same."
- James Levine
(Related: Men, Women, Housework, Participation, Years)
"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
- Kate Millett
(Related: Housework)
"Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization."
- Ann Oakley
(Related: Work, Possibility, Housework, Self)
"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
(Related: Car, Driving, Housework, Silence, Space, Walking, Writer, Writing)
"My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework."
- Sara Paretsky
(Related: Home, Housework, Intellectuals, Liberal, Parents)
"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
(Related: Men, Thought, Housework)
"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Beds, Hate, Months)
"Housework, if it is done right, can kill you."
- John Skow
(Related: Housework, Right)
"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
(Related: Management, Housework)