Housework Quotes

Women are still doing the lion’s share or three quarters of housework at home – even though they are working. They have two burdens.

You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again.

For fixing things around the house, nothing is handier than a man with a checkbook.

Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is eradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards’ corruption and racism, here’s your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and nonnegotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

A husband is someone who takes out the trash and gives the impression he just cleaned the whole house.

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

I have no taste for slavery, but I deny that these chores (household) are its consequence. They have always seemed to me to have a natural, invincible attraction for us, for I have felt it in all periods of my life and they have sometimes calmed great agitations of the mind. Their influence is mind-numbing […]

There’s no real need to do housework – after four years it doesn’t get any worse.

Men “can” clean of course, but women “do” clean