Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!” and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

It’s not the nineteenth century; I’m not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me...

A messy house is a must – it separates your true friends from other friends.Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

Housework can kill you if done right.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on...

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

She helped the hunter with the cooking as a husband helps his wife: when he had gone out to hunt and left something to stew, she would take the pot off the fire. But she...

Excuse the mess, but we live here.

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.