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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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it.
— Gabrielle Burton
Housework can kill you if done right.
— Erma Bombeck