Domesticity Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the…
— George Gissing
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The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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 with the Pretenders...I…
— Chrissie Hynde
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from…
— Jenna Fischer
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Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.
— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
— James Dickey
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As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as…
— Naomi Wolf
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The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
— Tracy Kidder
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I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we…
— Nick Hornby
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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
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I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
— Jenny Slate
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
— Adam Gopnik
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
— Boris Johnson
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I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With…
— Paul Theroux
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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces…
— Oscar Wilde
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There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing…
— Alice Munro
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What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one…
— Donna Tartt
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
— Rachel Cusk
Who Wrote These Domesticity Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Domesticity Quotes as follows: