Helping his wife wash the dishes, a minister protested, “This isn’t a man’s job.” “Oh yes it is,” his wife retorted, quoting 2 Kings 21:13: “I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.”
Housework Quotes
All work and no pay makes a housewife.
To a woman the house is life militant; to a man it is life in repose.
Woman’s work! Housework’s the hardest work in the world. That’s why men won’t do it.
Conran’s rule of housework: it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.
I’m a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Housekeeping ain’t no joke.
Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
