Jenny Holzer Quotes

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

I love to clean. I love to cook.

I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.

I don't do dishes, and I don't cook, either! Everything else, I can do!

I do have my own washing machine, but I do miss going to the laundromat. I love the smell of fabric softener.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.

When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

I'm good in the garden and I can do the cooking, ironing and cleaning, but I can't hang wallpaper or paint.

Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.

I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

I'm a very good laundress when I have to be.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.

Once, my writing-avoidance behavior involved me mixing up a cleaning concoction and getting some ancient stains out of the carpet. My wife liked that one.