Top 33 Housework Quotes

My mum loved housework, she basically had OCD.

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

I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

I watch good content, and films that are educating about life, or other things. I also do all my housework myself and that’s where my day goes.

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

I dislike snobby people, routine housework and getting up early in the morning, and central heating.

My parents were very well-off, but we didn’t have a crazy-huge house. We didn’t have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn’t have nannies. I wasn’t brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

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

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.

Whether we notice it or not, we spend our days negotiating for something: for our spouse to do more housework, a child to eat just three more bites or go to bed on time, an extended deadline on a project, a salary increase, a better rate on a vacation package.

I’m one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn’t believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.

I don’t want to have anyone else to do my housework. I’ve always done it myself. I believe you should do it yourself. I feel very strongly about that.

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

I do all my own shopping and housework.

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

One thing in space, just like home: you cannot escape housework. Every Saturday is clean-the-station day.

I’ve never been a guy who was anal about housework. A typical Wellington flat when I was flatting was a warehouse with, basically, sheets hung up for walls.

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

I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school.

Housework is no challenge for me.

When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.

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

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

I try to give my best to everything I do. I don’t think of housework as beneath my dignity; that’s just the way I was brought up.

I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won’t need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

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.

I’m a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

The women’s movement and the result that I get to benefit from and my generation gets to benefit from is that we might be doing housework, but we might not be. And we get to choose, and we get to negotiate and work that out with our prospective husbands or with our husbands.

I am mostly at home and I do my housework, I read and I love watching documentaries. In short, I love staying at home.

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.