#housework

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#anything #better #demands #girlfriend #hard

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

— Ann Oakley

#housework #human #opposed #possibility #self-actualization

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

#behind #car #doing #driving #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

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

— Annie Dillard

#else #far #housewife #housework #i

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

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance? ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#humor #humor

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. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#repetition #sisyphus #torture

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

— Danielle Raine

#housework #irony

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#kill #right #will #you