The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well. — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Like a night when the energy is bloody unsalvageable but the show must et cetera. Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea… — Brian McGreevy Copy Share Image
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
“Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [...] chink of cups… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
“I used to be the queen of domesticity, a Good Housekeeping cover model in the making. I was also an ambitious professional.… — Tiffany Dufu Copy Share Image
Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Copy Share Image
“At Cornell she had discovered that domesticity had a brain; here, in the beloved, safe home that was entirely hers, she was… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
“she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
“In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women’s household chores from the category of productive… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that… — Helen Kieran Reilly Copy Share Image
Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it.… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never… — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor… — Euripides Copy Share Image
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Even his initial stirrings of domesticity had some quirks. He bought a proper house in the Los Gatos hills, which he adorned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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