Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
Housework Quotes
I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.
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.
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, “Who could have done this? we have no enemies.”
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the “market” in which the “workers” find “jobs,” and the physical hazards are all very different […]
I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know
