Pastoral Resources

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

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

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Housework, if it is done right, can kill you.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.