#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

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

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. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#book #comes #ever #household #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

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