Zitat des Tages über Ordentlichkeit / Neatness:
I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
