"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you."

Dyer, Wayne | Love | 9 bookmarks

"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again."

Rivers, Joan | Housework | 1 bookmarks

"Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him."

Mead, Margaret | Housework | 1 bookmarks

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

Diller, Phyllis | Housework | 2 bookmarks

"I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy."

Conran, Shirley | Housework | 1 bookmarks

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

Unknown, Source | Blame | 1 bookmarks

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

Baldwin, James | Children | 2 bookmarks

"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away"

Mulock, Dinah | Comfort | 3 bookmarks

"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

Rilke, Rainer Maria | Comfort | 3 bookmarks

"I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now."

Show, Grant | Comfort | 1 bookmarks