#housework

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 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

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

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

— Ernest Borgnine

#even #hotels #housework #i #made

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

— Evan Esar

#does #done #hasn #housework #nobody

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

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

— Kate Millett

#bin #go #housework #more #then

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

— Ann Oakley

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

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

— Annie Dillard

#else #far #housewife #housework #i