Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.

对于那些被迫不可爱的工作，这是一个不同的故事。

Above all, there will be happiness and joy of life, instead of frayed nerves, weariness, and dyspepsia. The work exacted will be enough to make leisure delightful, but not enough to produce exhaustion.

If it is the case that we ought to do things that, predictably, most of us won’t do, then let’s face that fact head-on.

“Many times in my travels I have lost everything but the clothes I was wearing and Lizbeth.  The things I find in Dumpsters, the love letters and ragdolls of so many lives, remind me of this lesson.  Now I hardly pick up a thing without envisioning the time I will cast it away.  This I think is a healthy state of mind.  Almost everything I have now has already been cast out at least once, proving that what I own is valueless to someone.” (157-158)