#housework

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

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

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

— Siobhan Fahey

#dave #does #her #housework #i

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

#always #arranging #children #church #cooking

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

— Barbara Kolb

#composing #contemplative #doing #emotional #feminine

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin. ↗

— Kate Millett

#bin #go #housework #more #then

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

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

— Annie Dillard

#else #far #housewife #housework #i

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

— Phyllis Diller

#humor #humor

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

— Danielle Raine

#housework #irony