And, over the last thirty years we have seen men’s participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women’s have stayed at about the same.
James Levine

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

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
Maureen Forrester

Housework, if it is done right, can kill you.
John Skow

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
Erma Bombeck

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma Bombeck

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.
Evan Esar

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
Ann Oakley

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.
Anne Gibbons

I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.
Heloise Cruse

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
Sara Paretsky

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I’d never do that. Dave does the cooking.
Siobhan Fahey

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates

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

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
Rudyard Kipling

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

Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy.

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.
Katharine Whitehorn

Don’t cook. Don’t clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum – “My God, the floor’s immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch.”
Joan Rivers

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I’ve ever seen that I didn’t have to clean.
Erma Bombeck

I’m not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on.
Roseanne Barr

I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.
Heloise Cruse

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Cecil Baxter

The trouble with living alone is that it’s always your turn to do the dishes.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller

Housework, if it is done right, can kill you.
John Skow

Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don’t do it.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they’re ended.
Colley Cibber

This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, “Honey, do this,” and “Honey, do that” around the house.
Jim Lemon

The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie

Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

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.
Dave Barry

A clean house is the sign of a boring person.

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home…. I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.
Nancie J. Carmody

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.
C.E. Cowman

There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.
Joe Ryan

They’re sure housework won’t kill you, but why take the risk?

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
Kin Hubbard

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we’re expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
Robert Brault

I enjoy mowing the lawn, it relaxes me. It gets me outdoors, it’s good exercise, the freshly cut grass smells great, and the engine is loud enough that I’m sure no one else can hear my thoughts – or intrude upon them.
Astrid Alauda

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma Bombeck

Cleanliness is next to impossible.

You won’t do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
Kate Millett