There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse. – Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. – Katharine Whitehorn, “Nought for Homework,” Roundabout, 1962
More negatives write than call. Its a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. – John Hall
Most fathers dont see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddys lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. – Victoria Secunda
