#housekeeping

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, “Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#cleaning #housekeeping #life #age

Housekeeping ain't no joke. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#joke

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#church #definitely #going #housekeeping #how

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? The tale tells how the Lords of Manva hunted & gathered roots & cooked their suppers while they were camped in exile in the foothills of Sul, but it doesn't say what their wives & children were living on in their city left ruined & desolate by the enemy. They were finding food too, somehow, cleaning house & honoring the gods, the way we did in the siege & under the tyranny of the Alds. When the heroes came back from the mountain, they were welcomed with a feast. I'd like to know what the food was and how the women managed it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#gender #housekeeping #storytelling #family

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#carpeting #children #courage #housekeeping #parenthood

Housework can kill you if done right. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#housekeeping #humor #humor

I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#humor #humor

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the leaves from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#housekeeping #inspirational #inspirational

And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#messies #cat

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#cover #demonstrating #good #good housekeeping #housekeeping