#scrubbing

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#beat #dollar #drunk #earned #get

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#carried #door #furiously #grease #had

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#floors #much #presidency #scrubbing

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#end #end result #get #give #kind

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#carrying #each #floors #going #gym