Quotes About Household

Even as more wives took paying jobs during the Depression, their unpaid workload increased. Less able to afford the conveniences that had begun to lighten the homemaker's load in the 1920s, women had to sew more of their own clothes, can more of their own preserves, do more of their cooking from scratch. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" was a popular saying of the day.

The trick of being a good guest is never to ask any questions about the composition of the household. Hosts, even the grandest, are nervous creatures and interpret curiosity as evidence of dissatisfaction.

The woman of the mountains leads a difficult life, while the man is lord of the household. Whether he works, visits, or roams through the woods with dog and gun is nobody's business but his own. . . . He is entirely unable to understand any interference in his affairs by society; if he turns his corn into "likker," he is dealing with what is his. • WPA, The WPA Guide to Kentucky

We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.

For thousands of years, servants and slaves--or in lesser households, wives and daughters--were stuck with the same pestles and sieves, with few innovations. This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.

When other life factors were considered, the people who were happiest were those who were most satisfied with their household finances, and the next happiest were those who had good health. Marriage came in third.

In some households you only have to turn up three times before you're expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard.

African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Maggie, la criada,

I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

If I hadn't been raised in such a logical household, the entertainment industry would have elicited only one reaction from me in regards to 'Christians': 'Good God, these people are crazy.'

Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

TaskRabbit is a safe and convenient way for you to hire someone to help you with your chores around the house.

I've always been a little homemaker.

I'm the homemaker, and that's fine with me because I really like that.

I grew up in a household listening to hip-hop music.

MSNBC is barred from my household. CNN is barred from my household.

The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.

You don't grow up in a Latina household where everyone is curvy thinking that you can be a model. That's just not normal.