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“Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.”

Men Made Dirt Disturbing Something Better Housework

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)

“People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.”

People Eternal Dishes Housework Truth And Love

Book:The Catalogue of the Universe

Source: The Catalogue of the Universe

“The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.”

Men Stills Important Reason Today Dies House Important Things Reason Why Retiring Polish Housework

Author:Margaret Mead

“Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older? Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?”

Knows Giving Should Littles Home Mother Turns Girl Social Listening Ten Projects Down And Busy Clubs Work Out Nine Frank Eleven Social Life Housework

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.”

Doe Mother Waste Cooking Housework Dave

Author:Siobhan Fahey

“Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.”

Children Stills Care Married Majority Take Care Expected Housework Married Women

Author:Jessica Valenti

“The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean for ever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal.”

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.”

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.”

Home Turns House Labor Guests Expecting Visitors Housework House Guests

Author:Robert Breault

“Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.”

Home Purpose Assuming Presentation Housework

Author:Robert Breault

“My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.”

Way Wells House Parent Crazy Huge Majority Workers Mum Staff Extravagant Housework Nannies

Author:Petra Stunt