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Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. -- Erma Bombeck
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? -- Phyllis Diller
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. -- Ann Oakley
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. -- Evan Esar
Housework can kill you if done right. -- Erma Bombeck
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. -- Erma Bombeck
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. -- Quentin Crisp
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. -- Joan Rivers
Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time company comes. -- Marilyn Sokol
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
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
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
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
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
Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage. -- Erma Bombeck
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it. -- Edna Ferber
Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks. -- Thelma Harper
Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour. -- Shirley Conran
Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read. -- Melinda Gates
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?'). -- Marni Jackson
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. -- Oscar Wilde
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. -- Phyllis Diller
I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. -- Shirley Conran
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. -- Bette Midler
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. -- Erma Bombeck
You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin. -- Kate Millett
I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else. -- Annie Dillard
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. -- Erica Jong
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. -- Kin Hubbard
My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels. -- Ernest Borgnine
Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework. -- Angela Davis
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. -- Robert Breault
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
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 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. -- Madhuri Dixit
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. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
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
My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie. -- Cynthia Nixon
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
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. -- Nancy Mitford
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
My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches. -- Christine Pelosi
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
No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
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. -- Vladimir Lenin
Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework. -- Francoise Sagan
As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework. -- Sarah Waters
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. -- Julie Kenner
You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin. -- Kate Millett
Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs. -- Chuck Palahniuk
My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. -- Terry Pratchett
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking. -- Siobhan Fahey
I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible. -- Maxine
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. -- Barbara Kolb
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework. -- Ben Aaronovitch
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
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. -- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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. -- Evelyn Underhill
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. -- Ann Voskamp
Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured. -- Julia Child
advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework. -- Mary Frances Berry
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 -- Stephen Chbosky
Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework. -- Crystal Eastman

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