Ironing Board Quotes

• The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Pain, White, Boards

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.290, Zola Books

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• Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Example, Boards, Want

  "Dan the man". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

  Jenny Eclair

  Boards, Stills

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• A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kitchen, Boards

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.53, Fawcett

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• Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.

  Rona Barrett

  People, Boards, Embodiment

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• Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

  Eudora Welty

  Women, Home, Piano

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In Sardinia one summer my best friend Marisa Berenson and I ironed each other's hair. We used a hot laundry iron and took turns putting our hair on the ironing board, literally ironing it. That's a recipe for straightening that may be highly successful, but is definitely not recommended.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Summer, Successful, Hair

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