Erma Bombeck
Humorist, Writer
"My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance."
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Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day."
Ryan Adams
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat."
Anita Hill
Law Professor and Activist
"I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are."
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"I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows."
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"Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew."
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"I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby."
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"When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do."
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"Housekeeping ain't no joke."
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"It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts."
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"I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example."
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"I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been."
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"Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived."
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"Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay."
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"There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven."
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"Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks."
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"I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it."
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"Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites"
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"It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear."
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"A good home must be made, not bought."
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"I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do"
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"Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that."
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"Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized."
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"In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year."
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