#housework

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

#even #expected #home #housework #intellectuals

The secret of surviving housework is simply to do it. Pull the plug on the part of your brain that always wants to negotiate everything. You need to change a diaper, rinse a bottle, clean a spill, fluff a pillow? Consider it done. It's a no-brainer. End of conversation. End of story. Not postponing chores-and not spending any mental energy equivocating, temporizing, or stalling-is actually a lot more restful than worrying about what needs to be done. ↗

— Veronique Vienne

#veronique-vienne #change

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it. ↗

— Danielle Raine

#housework #irony

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

— Quentin Crisp

#any #dirt #first #four #get

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

— Phyllis Diller

#chance #housework #kill #take #take a chance

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

— Joan Rivers

#beds #dishes #hate #housework #i

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

#allowed #because #competent #consistently #else

They cooked and washed dishes and scrubbed and mopped and dusted and wiped and cleaned the apartment from crack to crevice back to crack. ↗

— Matthew Aaron Goodman

#housework #love

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

#both #childcare #housework #increased #last

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

#climbing #cooking #diversion #housework #lark