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

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

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks. — Thelma Harper

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

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. - Erma Bombeck — Lynn Kellan

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

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children. — Jessica Valenti

(At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.) — Ann Jones

Honestly, I understand why ladies are never the heroines of anything, they simply cannot get away from their kitchens long enough to rescue anyone. — Barbara Hamilton

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

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

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework. — Ben Aaronovitch

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour. — Shirley Conran

I don't much like to do housework, you know. — Astrid Lindgren

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

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

Dirt is matter in the wrong place. — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Who knows what light housework means? One nun's light could be another nun's penal servitude. — Maeve Binchy

This is part of what I meant about housework. If it isn't important, what is? If it isn't done honorably, where is honor? Ista — Ursula K. Le Guin

I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up. — Madhuri Dixit

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework. — Lynn Coady

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs. — Chuck Palahniuk

Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage. — Erma Bombeck

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

Writing is a wonderful way to spend the day. Particularly when the alternative is housework! — J. Mary Masters

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. — Erma Bombeck

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

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck

Eliminating clutter would cut down the amount of housework in the average home by 40 percent. — Gretchen Rubin

My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. — Terry Pratchett

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

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible. — Maxine

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

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

Housework is a cinch, provided your standards are low enough. — Marianne Neifert

As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework. — Sarah Waters

Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time company comes. — Marilyn Sokol

women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To — Geraldine Brooks

Close your eyes and pretend you are living with a woman - how would you divide the housework? — Gloria Steinem

Everything truly important is washable. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance? — Phyllis Diller

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. — Julie Kenner

Housework is the most productive procrastination close to a deadline. — Grant McLachlan

They cooked and washed dishes and scrubbed and mopped and dusted and wiped and cleaned the apartment from crack to crevice back to crack. — Matthew Aaron Goodman

No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework. — Karin Slaughter

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

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

The cruel irony of housework:
people only notice when you don't do it. — Danielle Raine

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework. — Francoise Sagan

My revulsion kicked in. Sexual domination, sure. Dishes, housework, even cooking for a man, all these for some weird reason repulsed me. — Cari Silverwood

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it. — Edna Ferber

No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it. — Gabrielle Burton

He was here! And he was performing live and in-person girl porn - household tasks! — Gena Showalter

Housework can kill you if done right. — Erma Bombeck