Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines …

- Cheryl Mendelson

So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practi…

- Cheryl Mendelson

I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ev…

- Cheryl Mendelson

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

- Cheryl Mendelson

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

- Cheryl Mendelson

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I…

- Cheryl Mendelson

What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity,…

- Cheryl Mendelson

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

- Cheryl Mendelson