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Jane G. Swissholm: “Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine, or flower.”  more
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Louisa May Alcott: “Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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Anna Garlin Spencer: “Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.
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Joyce Carol Oates: “If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
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Phyllis Diller: “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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Sara Paretsky: “My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: “Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
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Phyllis Diller: “Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
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Quentin Crisp: “There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
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Phyllis Diller: “My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
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Joan Rivers: “I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
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