Domestic Work Quotes

There was years when my father didn't even make a hundred grand - or barely made a hundred grand - and sure, we had a maid, but she only came twice a week. What do you think happened the other five days? You think those dishes washed themselves? You think those clothes got themselves in the hamper?

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.

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 into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

I don't think I'll ever be a housewife.

I simply love doing household chores and cooking.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

Stay at home mom is still a job.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you're set. But this isn't always - or even usually - the case.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

Women have cleaned up things since time began, and if women get into politics there will be a cleanup.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

I will happily sit at home and take care of the house.

When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.