Housekeepers Quotes

• There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Littles, Little Things

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
  As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
  Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept
  All by the name of dogs: the valued file
  Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
  The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
  According to the gift which bounteous nature
  Hath in him closed.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Names

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!

  Louisa May Alcott

  Baby, Heart, Ambition

  Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Work: A Story of Experience: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.706, Library of America

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• I was always a good housekeeper. Whenever I divorced I always kept the house.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  House, Divorced

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• I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Home, Nannies

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• Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, People, Dirt

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• "I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I think the crop will be poor." Ignoring her remark, the editor caused to be inserted in the evening paper his estimate of the crop situation. That night when he returned home he found the housekeeper waiting for him with a sheepish grin on her face and a copy of the paper in her hand. "I was wrong," she said apologetically. "It says right here in the paper that the crop will be excellent this fall."

  James Keller

  Morning, Fall, Home

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• I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

  Lynn Freed

  Children, Earth, Matter

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• I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Marriage, Girl, Freedom

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• Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

  R. Heber Newton

  Mother, Wife, Fundamentals

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• I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Lost Love, Women

  "How to Catch a Man, how to Keep a Man, how to Get Rid of a Man". Book by Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1970.

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• The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fall, Past, Dust

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

  Jane Addams

  Cities, May, Corporations

  Jane Addams, Berenice A. Carroll, Clinton F. Fink (1907). “Newer Ideals of Peace”, p.101, University of Illinois Press

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• [On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mother, Women, Home

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• The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2014). “Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen”, BookRix

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• Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Sleep, Dust

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• Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mean, Dwelling Place, Giving

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!

  Tom Bergeron

  People, Dancing, Movement

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• When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.

  Laraine Day

  Daughter, Doors, Half

  "Fictional character: Nancy Monks Blair Patton". "The Locket", www.imdb.com. December 20, 1946.

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• All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.

  Willie Pep

  Divorce, Boxing, Wife

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• I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Clever, House, Divorced

  "Zsa Zsa Gabor, first U.S. star famous for being famous, dead at 99". www.rappler.com. December 19, 2016.

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• I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

  Dennis Quaid

  Mother, Growing Up, Drinking

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• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Guests, Cleaning, Advantage

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• I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

  Colm Toibin

  Girl, Nice, Boys

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• Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Depression, Years, Black

  Sebastian Faulks (2000). “Charlotte Gray: A Novel”, Vintage

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