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“I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.”

Book:Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

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Cheryl Mendelson

Cheryl Mendelson, born in 1946, is a renowned American novelist. Her works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound social insights, which have won her a wide audience. more

“So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.”

People I Can Done Facts Law House Imagine Taught Lows Paid Agree Boring Lawyer Familiar Frustrating Repetitive Drudgery Housekeeping Unintelligent

Book:Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

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“Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits.”

Thinking I Can Body Care Order Opportunity Enjoy Offers Achievement Benefits Satisfaction Rhythm Plenty Echoes Cleanliness Freshness Housekeeping Savoring Rhythm Of Life

Author:Cheryl Mendelson

“Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.”

Men Car

Author:Christian McKay

“The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.”

Mind Able Universe Wonderful Figures Strange Not Sure Atoms Wonderful Things

Author:Daniel Mainwaring

“Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.”

Chosen France Love Of My Life

Author:Laure Manaudou

“For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”

Feels Heart Beautiful Wish Forget Grace Bird Slaughter Habitat

Author:Maggie Nelson

“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.”

Way Feels Sometimes Problem Courses Company Loneliness Arms Easier Solitude Dignity Blue Solve

Book:Bluets

Source: Bluets

“It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.”

People Ends Leader Everyday Acts Of Courage Inspiring Others

Author:Ai-jen Poo

“I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.”

Men Cost Window Glasses Sheets Furnaces Heating

Author:Amory Lovins

“Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.”

Energy Technology Resources Saving Faster Efficiency Improving Cheaper

Author:Amory Lovins

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