Housekeeping ain’t no joke.
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women
Wit & one-liners
“Housekeeping ain’t no joke.”
- Author
- Louisa May Alcott
- Work
- Little Women
- Year
- 1868
- Chapter / part
- Chapter Eleven: Experiments
- Length
- 4 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #514
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Louisa May Alcott died in 1888, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1868. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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