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“I am often amused when women with little or no experience in housekeeping and/or unaccustomed to performing household chores, upon stumbling on a man…

— D. Cypriani Regis

“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

“...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“In the spring, a middle-aged man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of gardening.”

— Richard Martinus

“A horse was hag-ridden. Its owners filled a bottle with its urine, stopped it with a cork, and buried it: the witch could not…

— Robert Glück

“Mrs Loudon was even more successful than her husband thanks to a single work, Practical Instructions in Gardening for Ladies, published in 1841, which…

— Bill Bryson

“A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.”

— George Gissing

“It was his vocation to pleasure as many women as possible, in pursuit of his own pleasure. It was as close to a job…

— Rosanna Leo

“There were as many women as men in his line of work, and he actually felt more at ease working with women. For the…

— Hakuri Murakami

“And as he followed after the Irishwoman, Margaret Erskine, most levelheaded of women, picked up a Palissy vase, looked at it earnestly and smashed…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though an old…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Womanhood is like flourishing a garden.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita