Top 115 Housework Quotes & Sayings

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

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

I do all my own shopping and housework.

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

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

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

Housework is no challenge for me.

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.

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.

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.

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?

I watch good content, and films that are educating about life, or other things. I also do all my housework myself and that's where my day goes.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

One thing in space, just like home: you cannot escape housework. Every Saturday is clean-the-station day.

I've never been a guy who was anal about housework. A typical Wellington flat when I was flatting was a warehouse with, basically, sheets hung up for walls.

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

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

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

What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the next, smiling the whole time. I went over there one day and begged her to tell me her secret. It's simple, she said, right after breakfast you light up a joint.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

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

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

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

An African man should not do anything called housework or cooking.

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

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

My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

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

I dislike snobby people, routine housework and getting up early in the morning, and central heating.

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

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

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.

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

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

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

I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.

Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?').

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

I don't want to have anyone else to do my housework. I've always done it myself. I believe you should do it yourself. I feel very strongly about that.

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

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

My mum loved housework, she basically had OCD.

I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school.

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 into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

Housework can kill you if done right.

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

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

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