The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband’s house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
Housework Quotes
The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women: one cleaning and one dusting.
I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don’t have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?
Housework expands to fill the time available. Time not spent doing one task will be taken up by another – Washing used to be done on a single day of the week – Laundry is now done several times a day – Television commercials show beaming women snatching a single soiled garment from the back […]
Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay’s a lot worse.
All washing washed, All ironing ironed, All dusting dusted, All cooking cooked, All pigs fed and ready to fly!
I call myself a ‘domestic goddess.’
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 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 […]
It is certainly true that housekeeping cares bring with them a thousand endearing compensations. They are a woman’s peculiar joy, and women are apt to be light-hearted.
