The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.
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.
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.
Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. . . . may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!
Being Dead means very light housekeeping
My husband taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping
It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
