“Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or a goddamn wish fulfillment.” — Brian McGreevy Copy Share Image
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Copy Share Image
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. — R. Heber Newton Copy Share Image
“brings domesticity and common sense, and that propriety which every man loves, directly into this hurly-burly, and makes every bully ashamed.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image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
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
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
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
“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
“There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“The part of me that enjoys housekeeping and the comforts it provides is central to my character. Until now, I have almost… — Cheryl Mendelson 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them. — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. — James Howell Copy Share Image
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home. — Agnes Repplier 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
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. — Euripides Copy Share Image
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