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 women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey 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 sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I have always been very low down on the list of priorities in the world of family and domesticity. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them. — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still… — Peg Bracken 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
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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
“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 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
“[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
“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
“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
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
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. — James Howell 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
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 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
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