Attention to detail Quote by Jessica Shines

“I highly recommend cleanliness. It pleases women and annoys men, which are two excellent ways to get on in society.”

— Kate Ross

“As for sweeping the floor, polishing the windows, dusting, and general drudgery of that sort … well, if women’s work was never done, why trouble about…

— Diana Gabaldon

“It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes:”

— Christina Stead

“Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like…

— Alain de Botton

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

— Jane Austen

“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

“Must we always bedeck ourselves in prettiness to be thought pleasing? It would appear so. A woman must look a certain way to be…

— Paula Brackston

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards…

— Georges Bataille

“Only women were capable of being so fucking sexy you wanted to lick them clean when they considered themselves dirty”

— C.J. Roberts

The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to…

— Jane Austen

“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”

— Charles Dickens

“It’s so hard for women – even nice women – to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.”

— Raymond Chandler