Quotes About Housework

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

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.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.

When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

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.

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

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

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 housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.