Quotes on Housework

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.

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.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

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

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

The women's movement and the result that I get to benefit from and my generation gets to benefit from is that we might be doing housework, but we might not be. And we get to choose, and we get to negotiate and work that out with our prospective husbands or with our husbands.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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.

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.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.