“I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life.” — Abbi Waxman Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Some men,” she would add in ominous seriousness, “are nice as pie in public but within their own homes they are mean… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred… — Mary Livermore Copy Share Image
If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
“She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The domestic war against "terrorists" [code for young protesters] provides new opportunities for major defense contractors and corporations who are becoming more… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.” — Mary Allsebrook 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
“The domestic matters. It is the base unit upon which all else is built. The history of the domestic is the history… — Ruth Goodman Copy Share Image
To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another." "It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this? — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
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