Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. — James Howell 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
Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them. — James Sheridan Knowles 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
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
“She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but… — Alison Fell 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
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
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by… — Quentin Crisp 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
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to… — Paul Theroux 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
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...a far more palatable - and, in many cases, more successful - form of femininity: the lifestyle supermom...they've built tremendously successful brands… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — Naomi Wolf 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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that… — Helen Kieran Reilly 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
I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like… — Jenna Fischer 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
Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism… — Phillip Lopate 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
“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
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
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
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy… — Chrissie Hynde 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
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
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
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