Housework Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Housework". There are currently 200 quotes in our collection about Housework. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Housework!
The best sayings about Housework that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

    Queens   Lying   Taken  
    Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK
  • The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.

    Virginia Woolf (1980). “Virginia Woolf, women and writing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older? Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?

    Girl   Mother   Home  
  • My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

    Family   Mom   Mother  
    Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.96, Fawcett
  • 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.

    Fighting   People   Doe  
  • [On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

    Mother   Women   Home  
  • Something happens in the middle when women are in their 30s, and we can start with an array of things that happen, whether it is - you hope this doesn't exist any longer - but overt discrimination; whether it's subtle gender discrimination, which absolutely does exist among men and women; whether it's the fact that it gets hard to juggle at that point children, housework, etc. But people still have to go home and cook the dinner and clean the dishes and get the beds made and so on. And so, for a whole bunch of reasons, women tend to fall out in their 30s still today.

    Children   Fall   Home  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • 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 (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

    Spring   Winter   Dust  
  • The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

    Mean Girls   Women   Age  
  • 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.

    Book   Mean   Management  
  • in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

    Home   Order   Anchors  
    Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”
  • Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.93, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.
  • I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

    Art   Stupid   Instinct  
  • The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

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

    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.29, Random House
  • 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 (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
  • It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

    Marriage   Fear   Men  
    Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”
  • I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

    Years   Use   Cleaning  
  • A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

    Feet   Doe   Body  
  • It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

    Wise   Sight   Soul  
    "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.
  • 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.

    Cheer   Thinking   Orange  
    D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.55, Cambridge University Press
  • I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

    Running   Home   Nannies  
  • And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.

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

  • Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

    Party   House   Cost  
    Colley Cibber (1761). “The double gallant: or, The sick lady's cure”, p.7
  • The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

    Inspiring   Keys   Next  
  • Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

    Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage
  • To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

  • Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

    Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage
Page 1 of 7
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • We hope our collection of Housework quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Housework is constantly growing (today it includes 200 sayings from famous people about Housework), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Housework!