Home Quote by A.M. Homes

“Houses don't clean themselves, she'd mutter. Sometimes she cleaned the bits she had just cleaned. It wasn't like living in a house, but more…

— Rachel Joyce

“As far as I'm concerned, a house should look lived-in, and I consider it clean as long as I don't stick to it and…

— Jenny Lawson

“My mother despises what can never truly be done so she does not care for cooking or cleaning.”

— Faith Shearin

“You never buy a woman an appliance or anything to use for keeping house.”

— Kathleen Brooks

“I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

“I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness.”

— Culver Connor McCall

“I have a theory that all kitchens, if sufficiently occupied and loved, grow their own appliances.”

— Kerry Greenwood

“Trouble has set up housekeeping with me, and I can't get rid of it.”

— Elaine Hussey

“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.”

— Jane Austen

“A tidy house is a sign of a misspent life.”

— Mom

“She could surely rise to a dishwasher, but she prefers to use her children. She believes that a row of children chopping vegetables is…

— Barbara Trapido