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

"Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else."

- Cheryl Mendelson

"Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home."

- Cheryl Mendelson

"What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping."

- Cheryl Mendelson

"Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits."

- Cheryl Mendelson

"Home is the one place in the world where you are safe from feeling put down or out, unentitled, or unwanted."

- Cheryl Mendelson

"If you have no systems, you have to reinvent your housekeeping or debate what to do first every time you do it, and the required mental effort is a major obstacle, especially when you are tired. But a tired working person is often able to do things that are routine and habitual."

- Cheryl Mendelson