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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. Quentin Crisp

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Erma Bombeck

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Jessica Valenti

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Quentin Crisp

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

Jack Canfield

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Maureen Forrester

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Sara Paretsky

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

Kate Millett

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Fawn M. Brodie

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

Emily Oster

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

James Levine

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

Siobhan Fahey

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

Evan Esar

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Erma Bombeck

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

Phyllis Diller

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

Joan Rivers

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

Ernest Borgnine

I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn't the fact that you do the laundry.

Alice Munro

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Katharine Whitehorn

I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

J. G. Ballard

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

Sheryl Sandberg

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

Lynn Coady