40 Quotes About Chores
- Author Marguerite Patten
-
Quote
The survey of the time spent in the home by most housewives established that, on average, they worked 75 hours a week, with overtime on Saturdays and Sundays. This did not take into account that a number of women were also doing part or full-time work outside the home.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Simone de Beauvoir
-
Quote
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. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Barbara Brown Taylor
-
Quote
I no longer call such tasks "housework". I call them the "domestic arts," paying attention to all the ways they return me to my senses.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Bette Midler
-
Quote
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Erma Bombeck
-
Quote
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Roseanne Barr
-
Quote
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Mary Allsebrook
-
Quote
She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Jerome K Jerome
-
Quote
We worked steadily for five-and-twenty minutes, and did four potatoes.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Ashley Newell
-
Quote
Man, who did you piss off today? Laundry and kitchen? Just take the damn drugs next time, Blanky, you might live longer.
- Tags
- Share