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“Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.”

Ifs Home Kids Together Remember Work Rooms Teacher Ready Setting Settings Beer Eggs Breakfast Invites Milk Family Life Living Room Orderly Housework Muffins Plowing

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.”

Home Running Hours Week Dinner Evening Cooks Cleaners Fisherman Housework One Hour Nannies Housekeepers Tesco

Author:Victoria Beckham

“But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.”

Children Long Stills Home Care Kids Mother Father Hours Conflict Responsible Majority Spending More Time Housework Weighing Long Hours Child Care Working Long Hours

Author:Brigid Schulte

“I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.”

Men Want Trying Kind Helping Home Kids Hate Wish Enjoy Hero Harder Heroism Hate Me Housework Stay At Home Don't Hate

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.”

Littles Whole Home Running Civilization Gold Golden Little Things Sunlight Thread Fabric Garments Housework Gleam

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.”

Real Home Personality Drama Conflict Areas Exciting Active Concentration Objections Housework Domesticity

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.”

Feels Home Mother Women Situation Roles Wife Household Screws Housework Housekeepers Wife Mother Women's Roles

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.”

Home Law House Hours Half Available Plus Housework

Book:Superwoman

Source: Superwoman

“in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.”

Humans Home Order House Human Beings Morality Ruins Sheets Anchors Housework

Book:The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated