My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits.
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Somebody once observed--and the observation did him credit, whoever he was--that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping.
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
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