Cheryl Mendelson famous quotes

I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
-- Cheryl Mendelson

#Philosophy #Writing #Trying

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

#Children #Home #Order

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.
-- Cheryl Mendelson

#House #Secret #Working Women

So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.
-- Cheryl Mendelson

#Law #People #House

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

#Opportunity #Thinking #Echoes

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.
-- Cheryl Mendelson

#Orderliness #Dirt #Disease

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.
-- Cheryl Mendelson

#Self Love #Novel #Cookbook

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.
-- Cheryl Mendelson

#Writing #Rocks #Old And New

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.