“Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House.”

“I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!”

“Very bad thing, killing little boy. But maybe Red man knows about whisky-Red, very thirsty, making crazy. Not like killing man to take his house or his woman or his land, like White man all the time.”

“My job was to keep the house clean, get the children off to school, help the cook-housekeeper, and serve at table. The house was much more perfect than the sort of gilt-bordered Christmas-card-Heaven that a crooked-nosed woman would sacrifice everything to attain in the next world: it was an all-electric house, with machines being plugged in and started up all day long; there was no such thing as a fire; heat came from hot-springs underground, and the glowing embers in the fireplace were made of glass.”

“The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.”

“…this great grey pile of stone has been a house, never a home. It takes a woman's hand and heart, or a child's presence to make a home…”

“Smartness always helps in gaining access to the houses of the wealthy. Anyone with a clean face is acceptable to thugs.”

“The woman must feel secure in being a woman in the first place, since the woman is the blueprint and the foundation of the house.”

“A woman’s beauty lies in her piety and loyalty. When a man leaves the house, he leaves his trust, wealth, love and respect in her hands and if she opens that up to another man, then I’m sorry to say, I don’t consider that a woman but rather a non-woman.”

“Maybe I'm just a gay man inside a woman's body!”