(27 quotes found)
“Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.”
Erma Bombeck
“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?”
“Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?”
Phyllis Diller
“Housework can kill you if done right”
“Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.”
“The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't”
Penny Kome
“My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it”
Dottie Archibald
“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”
Quentin Crisp
“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
“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
