Creation Quote by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic…

— Katrina Kenison

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone…

— Maeve Brennan

Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to…

— Marni Jackson

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort,…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it…

— Alexandra Stoddard

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The…

— Rebecca West

I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

— Joan Rivers

Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure, faith, service,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert