Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. — Euripides 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
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or a goddamn wish fulfillment.” — Brian McGreevy 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
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. — Hannah More 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves… — Henry Fielding 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
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 idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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
“[Leslie Bennett] You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely… — Emily Matchar 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
“When you do ultimately connect (and fear not, it happens all the time), you sincerely hope that the relationship will lead to… — Rae Orion 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
“But she wasn't a wife and mother. And, Joey aside, she didn't want to be one. Her mother had spend every last… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
“cult of domesticity for the woman was a way of pacifying her with a doctrine of “separate but equal”—giving her work equally… — Howard Zinn 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
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 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
I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time. — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
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