Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.93, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.
