Housework Quotes

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

Whenever the laws and the customs of a country permit an arrangement whereby a woman can be discarded because she has dishpan hands, she becomes the slave, not of the dishpans, but of man.

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

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I’ve ever seen that I didn’t have to clean.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you?

Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.