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  • My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

    Family   Mom   Mother  
    Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.96, Fawcett
  • No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

    Fighting   People   Doe  
  • My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

    Acting   Way   Cleaning  
  • When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

    Book   Mean   Management  
  • More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

    Dream   Home   Past  
  • It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.

    Space   Trying   May  
    May Sarton (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.137, Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

    Years   Use   Cleaning  
  • Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

    Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage
  • I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

    Funny   Hilarious   Hate  
    Quoted in Michele Brown and Ann O'Connor, Woman Talk (1984)
  • Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

    Women   Taken   Clothes  
  • They shared the chores of living as some couples do-she did most of the work and he appreciated it.

  • Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

  • At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

    Life   Stress   House  
    Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”
  • Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

  • I was surprised to learn that doing household chores qualifies as romantic for most of you [women]. That's exactly why you should never hire a butler if you strike it rich - the minute that Jeeves starts unloading the dishwasher without being asked, your wife is going to start humping his leg.

    Wife   Legs   Jeeves  
  • My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

  • 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.

  • I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

    Mom   Mother   Clever  
  • I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

    Lying   Lazy   Secret  
    Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet
  • I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

    Lying   Sofas   Chores  
    Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet
  • By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

    Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)
  • 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!'

    Doors   House   Enemy  
  • Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

    Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)
  • One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

    Life   Cute   Science  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.

    Husband   Women   Today  
  • Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.

    Mom   Mother   Dad  
  • Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

    Funny   Hilarious   Witty  
    Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.77, Penguin
  • Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.74, Courier Corporation
  • The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

    Time   Book   Memorable  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

    Ideas   Rooms   Cleaning  
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