40 Quotes About Chores

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.

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.

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.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.

We worked steadily for five-and-twenty minutes, and did four potatoes.

Man, who did you piss off today? Laundry and kitchen? Just take the damn drugs next time, Blanky, you might live longer.