The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.
Housework Quotes
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.
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.
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the “market” in which the “workers” find “jobs,” and the physical hazards are all very different […]
I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know
The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from.
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
