Care Quote by Jane Austen

“Men never know when things are dirty or not; women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.”

— Jane Austen

“Men never know when things are dirty or not”

— Jane Austen

“Now if I was aping men, she'd have every right to be disgusted. As far as I was concerned, men were something you had…

— Jeanette Winterson

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

— Anonymous

[On husband Phil Donahue:] The man does not know the meaning of the word tidy. He asked me one day, 'Where are my shoes?'…

— Marlo Thomas

“Recently she had become intrigued by the admiring glances of other women. The admiration of her own sex existed on a higher and more…

— J.G. Ballard

“Cleaning requires an attention to detail and a concern for the superficial that women are both pressured to internalize and then despised for possessing.”

— Jessica Shines

Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.

— Edward Everett Hale

“There was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level all women knew, they all understood, the fear of being outnumbered, of…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Ye might not know this about me…” “But I prefer my women… a wee bit dirty.”

— Kerrigan Byrne

“I think we've had rather too much dirt rather than not enough. That's not a prudish English remark, but a statement of saturation. These…

— A.S. Byatt

“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is…

— Jane Austen