Quotes About Housework

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

She also taught me how to pray, another discipline I didn't keep up with. In the beginning I was too busy, what with housework, cooking, and educating myself. I had little time for a god who had little time for me. As I matured, I had no use for one. Emmanuel Lévinas suggested that God left in 1941. Mine left in 1975. And in 1978, and in 1982, and in 1990.

Mahendra's condition was like that of a greedy boy who watches in desperation as his powerful mentor chews upon a sugarcane stick until almost all its juice is exhausted. He could not bear to watch his youthful bride's sweetness being relentlessly wrung out of her by the pressures of housework.

At home she generally avoided doing housework, she went on, because those kinds of chores made her feel so unimportant that she wouldn't have been able to write anything afterwards. She supposed they made her feel like an ordinary woman, when most of the time she didn't think about being a woman, or perhaps didn't even believe she was one, because at home it wasn't a subject that came up.

I've never been a guy who was anal about housework. A typical Wellington flat when I was flatting was a warehouse with, basically, sheets hung up for walls.

I don't have a dishwasher, and I hate washing dishes.

You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.

I like doing chores.

Why was it that the females of the species were always the ones left to tidy up, she wondered? I expect Jesus came out of the tomb...and said to his mother, Can you tidy it up a bit back there?

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

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.

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.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair.