Quotes About Housework

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

I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.

It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of God, to roll up his sleeves and wash the dishes? Why, it would be blasphemy. I know that I am but a rib and so I wash the dishes.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

(About sweeping)....What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't.

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

D]emanding wages for housework (…) forced recognition of the fact that the domestic work which women do has economic value. But many feminists feel that this demand leaves untouched the sexual division of labour - indeed, measures like paid maternity leave (…) can be seen as a form of'wages for motherhood' but(…) it fixes women more rigidly into work defined as 'women's work'.