“Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.”

“Oh, always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people.
-Nanny Ogg”

“There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”

“Hochschild’s biggest mistake, though, was one made by almost every popularized housework study: not adequately measuring men’s contribution to work around the home. For example, if mom drives the children to daycare, it’s called housework; if dad drives the family to grandma’s, it isn’t called housework.”

“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.”

“Housework can kill you if done right.”

“Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”

“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”

“I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.”

“Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.”