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
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller
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
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
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
Evan Esar
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
Ann Oakley
Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
Erma Bombeck
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
Siobhan Fahey
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
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
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
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma Bombeck
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp
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
You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
Kate Millett
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