Vacuums don’t clean houses. People clean houses. – Everybody Loves Raymond, “Humm Vac,” written by Lew Schneider, original airdate

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we’re expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt. – Edith Mendel Stern