“The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.”— Frank Muir
“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”— Quentin Crisp
“There is nothing which has a more abiding influence on the happiness of a family than the preservation of equable and cheerful temper and tones in the housekeeper.”— Catharine Beecher
“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”— Shirley Conran
“So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.”— Sylvia Plath
“Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay is a lot worse.”— Phyllis McGinley
“My husband said I could do anything I wanted to, as long as I got dinner on the table at 6 o'clock.”— Phyllis Schlafly
“A woman's profession... comprises the two most important branches of human life: the training of the mind in infancy and childhood, and the support and comfort of the sick.”— Catharine Beecher