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

"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."

"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."

"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."

"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."

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

"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."


"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."


"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"


"I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years.""


"For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward."
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