Housework Quotes

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma Bombeck

Fire, Why, Else

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
Erma Bombeck

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

Hate, Start, Again

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

After, Four, Worse

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
Evan Esar

Woman, Done, She

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

Car, Yourself, Writing

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.
Cynthia Nixon

Time, Hard, Working

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
Annie Dillard

Time, Else, Far

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb

Music, Emotional, Sensitive

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

Life, Mother, Her

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
Ann Oakley

Work, Human, Directly

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

Home, Parents, After

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.
Christine Pelosi

Mom, Her, Making

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

Women, Men, Same

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
Kate Millett

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

Book, Mean, Why

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

Cooking, Mountain, Teaching

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

Mother, Children, Woman

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.
Ernest Borgnine

Mother, Boy, Hotels

My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.
Petra Ecclestone

Parents, House, Majority

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

Men, Thought, Else

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