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Erma Bombeck

"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."

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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."

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"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number."

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"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."

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"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."

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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."

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"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."

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"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

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"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."

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"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."

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"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

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"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."

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