I have no taste for slavery, but I deny that these chores (household) are its consequence. They have always seemed to me to have a natural, invincible attraction for us, for I have felt it in all periods of my life and they have sometimes calmed great agitations of the mind. Their influence is mind-numbing […]
Housework Quotes
There’s no real need to do housework – after four years it doesn’t get any worse.
Men “can” clean of course, but women “do” clean
Whenever the laws and the customs of a country permit an arrangement whereby a woman can be discarded because she has dishpan hands, she becomes the slave, not of the dishpans, but of man.
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she’s a householder.
