There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.
Housework Quotes
I can’t tell you how many countless hours that I have spent Cleaning! I used to spend at least 8 hours every weekend making sure things were just perfect -“in case someone came over”. Then I realized one day that no one came over; they were all out living life and having fun! Now, when […]
A man’s home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor.
Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.
Keeping house is like stringing beads with no knot in the end of the thread.
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.
