Housekeeping Quotes - Page 2

• I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

  Judith Krantz

  Fashion, Jobs, Writing

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• The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Years, Long

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.30, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Movie, Awards, Actors

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• Housework can kill you if done right.

  Erma Bombeck

  Work, Drinking, Done

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• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tasks, Cleaning, Endless

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• My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

  Erma Bombeck

  Ideas, Rooms, Cleaning

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• In regards to those other franchises that are being remade, we must take pains to mention that we're the only one where the original creators are actually making the movie. It's a special feel of quality, like a Good Housekeeping quality.

  David Kirschner

  Pain, Special, Quality

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  Tracey Ullman

  Children, Nice, Toys

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• Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Art, Apology

  Julia Cameron (2001). “God is No Laughing Matter”, p.158, Penguin

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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• It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Dream, Romance, Quality

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Fire, Boston, Order

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Vices

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• My husband taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Wit and wisdom: Zsa Zsa Gabor's best and most memorable quotes". www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2016.

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• The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Horse, Wall

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• The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Thinking, Problem, Environment

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• 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

  Movie Love, Church, Television

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• Being Dead means very light housekeeping

  Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

  Mean, Light

  Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1991). “Black Mirror: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte”, Station Hill Press

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• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Being Yourself, Matter, Asking Yourself Questions

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.200, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Taken, Cutting

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Book, House, Insane

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• The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Order, Luxury, Want

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• So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Law, People, House

  Cheryl Mendelson (2005). “Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Goes On, Dishes, Patches

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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