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 […]
Housework Quotes
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
The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from.
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
