"Housekeeping ain't no joke."

Alcott, Louisa May · Housework · 1 fans >>
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"The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps."

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"I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy."

Conran, Shirley · Housework · 1 fans >>
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"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

Diller, Phyllis · Housework · 2 fans >>
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"The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment."

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"The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses."

Gillman, Charlotte P. · Housework · 0 fans >>
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"Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother."

Jones, Beverly · Housework · 0 fans >>
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"Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household."

Jong, Erica · Housework · 0 fans >>
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"You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman."

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"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."

Mccarthy, Mary · Housework · 0 fans >>
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