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Housekeeping
ain't no joke.
-- Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author
The works of
women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull
our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put
on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex
you... ''curse that stool!'' Or else at best, a cushion,
where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not,
but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most,
this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work,
perhaps.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet
I make no
secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than
sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're
going to be lazy.
-- Shirley Conran
1932-, British Designer,
Journalist
Cleaning your
house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling
the walk before it stops snowing.
-- Phyllis Diller
1861-1951, American Columnist
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The suburban
housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American
women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the
world. The American housewife -- freed by science and
labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of
childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found
true feminine fulfillment.
-- Betty Friedan
1921-, American Feminist
Writer
The labor of
women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more
wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are
economic factors in society. But so are horses.
-- Charlotte P. Gillman
1860-1935, American Feminist
and Writer
Now, as
always, the most automated appliance in a household is the
mother.
-- Beverly Jones
1927-, American Feminist
Writer
Perhaps all
artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth
household.
-- Erica Jong
1942-, American Author
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