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Quotes About Housemaids

Although there were moments even still in the grey glint of morning when the room had the agitated, stricken appearance of a person who had changed his creed a thousand times, sighed, stretched himself, turned a complete somersault, sat up, smiled, lay down, turned up his toes and died of doubts. But this aspect was reserved exclusively for the housemaids and the translucent threads of dawn.
~ Ronald Firbank
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaidsSprouting despondently at area gates.
~ T. S. Eliot
Mrs. Abbott, I'm going to the kitchen to wash. You'll want to warn the housemaids to shield their eyes from the sight of my manly chest." Kathleen, Lady Trenear, came to Garrett. "Whose housemaids would he be referring to?" she asked dryly. "Ours will be crowding into the scullery to obtain the best possible view.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.
~ Marian Engel