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Quotes About Household

In rich democracies, the same factors that confer household bargaining power on women also have a positive effect on fertility. We interpret this to mean that women would like to "have it all" as long as having children does not block their possibilities of accumulating human capital in the labor market. Trying to boost fertility with a campaign of pro-family rhetoric and incentives is likely to have precisely the opposite effect as intended.
~ Unknown
A single rotation of the blades generates the electricity for one household's daily use.
~ Paul Hawken
They shared the chores of living as some couples do --she did most of the work and he appreciated it.
~ Unknown
normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.
~ Dave Barry
Arthur, compelled by masculine instinct, leaned over and frowned at the contents of the case, exactly the way countless males have frowned at household appliances, plumbing, car engines, and all manner of other mechanical objects that they did not begin to understand. After a few seconds, as if he had seen something that satisfied his hard-nosed masculine skepticism, he straightened up and said, "OK.
~ Dave Barry
My wife reports these problems to me, because we are a modern enlightened couple who have divided up our household responsibilities equally along non-gender-stereotypical lines: My wife's responsibilities: Cleanliness, food, décor, clothing, medical care, houseguests, parties, holidays, relatives and all other activities involving human interaction, such as talking. My responsibilities: Things that break, lizards.
~ Dave Barry
the laundry, and took, in amicable
~ David Baldacci
i like to go into the roots of words, because they often show early insights, a fresh perception of meaning. the word 'economy' has a greek root, meaning 'household management'. we can say that there are so many households in the world and they all behave independently. in fact they are all interdependent. the earth is one household really, but we are not treating it that way. so the first step in economics is to say, the earth is one household, it is all one.
~ David Bohm
Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.
~ David Foster Wallace
to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Away with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. Antony, and Potpan!
~ William Shakespeare
The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.
~ Christopher Morley
Washing machines, vacuum cleaners and other appliances came to the aid of three quarters of American housewives. Motion pictures and the wireless brought new enjoyment to millions during their hours of leisure.
~ Unknown
Old courtiers have resigned, rather than serve Anne; the new comptroller of the household is Sir William Paulet
~ Hilary Mantel
La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
It was a kitchen to be useful in.
~ Holly Black
My God, she despised spaghetti bolognese. Night after night after night, plate after plate after plate. The laundry, the ironing, the mopping, the sweeping, the driving. She'd never resented it at the time but now she resented every moment, every single bloody lamb chop.
~ Liane Moriarty
I thought we didn't say 'shut up' in our house." "Fuck off, then,
~ Liane Moriarty
Anyway, men don't rule the world. We have a female prime minister. And you rule your world. You rule the Fitzpatrick household.
~ Liane Moriarty
Even the impetuous Helena Justina was an advocate of traditional family councils. However, every Roman matron knows that domestic councils were devised by our foremothers purely so the views of the matron of a household may prevail.
~ Lindsey Davis
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
~ Unknown
Franklin, the whole house was on Zoloft.
~ Lionel Shriver
bearing a bouquet of cleaning supplies and a bucket as a vase.
~ Unknown
He'd never expected to have a marriage like his parents'—few people on earth ever had. But at the very least Gabriel had hoped to marry an accomplished and respectable woman who would run his household efficiently and raise well-behaved children. Instead, it seemed he was going to marry a forest sprite. With an original mind.
~ Lisa Kleypas