Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

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

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

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste read more

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it

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

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

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the read more

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

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal read more

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

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

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