Housework Quotes

Housekeeping ain’t no joke.

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it.

After the first four years (not doing housework), the dirt doesn’t get any worse.

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.

I call myself a ‘domestic goddess.’

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework […]

It is certainly true that housekeeping cares bring with them a thousand endearing compensations. They are a woman’s peculiar joy, and women are apt to be light-hearted.