I love domestic life.

I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great.

— Sharon Van Etten

In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home,…

— Rachel Cusk

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for…

— Robert Gottlieb

I have a fairly normal domestic life.

— Peter Capaldi

I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream…

— Siri Hustvedt

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

— Fran Lebowitz

“The domestic matters. It is the base unit upon which all else is built. The history of the domestic is the history of everything:…

— Ruth Goodman

Choosing to mother your kids full-time may seem to some the easy choice, eschewing as it does the stresses and strains of the workplace,…

— Mariella Frostrup

We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of…

— Annia Ciezadlo

I hate the domestic life.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

— Hans Christian Andersen

“Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices threaten to make good the…

— Anonymous

“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius…

— Edward Gibbon

“I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life.”

— Abbi Waxman