“ No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. Erma Bombeck
“ All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. Erma Bombeck
“ I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a p… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.Real friends are there to visit you not your house! Jennifer Wilson
“ Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller
“ We amass material things for the same reason that we eat - to satisfy a craving. Buying on impulse and eating and drinking to excess are attempts to alleviate stress. From observing my clients, I have… Marie Kondo
“ Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies… Betty Friedan
“ Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, “Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death. Wendy Wasserstein
“ Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything––nothing else 'answered;' and Lydgate supposed t… George Eliot
