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

-Crisp, Quentin
  The Naked Civil Servant, ch.15.

I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.

-Winterson,Jeanette
  Sexing the Cherry.