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"Housekeeping ain't no joke."

~~Louisa May Alcott

"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."

~Marcelene Cox

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

~Eleanor Roosevelt

"I'm a real Suzy Homemaker."

~Suzy Bogguss

"The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother."

~Dorothy Fields

"I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else."

~Bella Abzug

"Salary.com,Inc., the compensation experts, announced today the 2006 update to their valuation of a Stay at Home Mom's job and for the first time addressed the question of what a Working Mom's job is worth. Salary.com consulted with Stay at Home and Working Moms and determined the top 10 jobs that make up a mom's job description. If paid, Stay at Home Moms would earn $134,121 annually (up from 2005's salary of $131,471). Working Moms would earn $85,876 annually for the "mom job" portion of their work, in addition to their actual "work job" salary."

“The job descriptions that Salary.com used to determine a mom’s salary includes 10 jobs that moms do on an average day: housekeeper, day care center teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van driver, CEO and psychologist.”

"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."

~Farrah Fawcett

"Round and round it goes… it makes me dizzy just thinking about it. I hope you see an end to your piles of laundry this week!"

~ Marcelene Cox

"I’m not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on."

~Roseanne Barre

"My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses."
~Audrey Hepburn

"Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

“After enlightenment, the laundry.”

~Josh Billings

"Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots."

~Hoosier Farmer

"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them."

~Benjamin Disraeli

“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