Quotes about Domesticity

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is. Votes: 4

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting. Votes: 4

Domesticity and all that isn't really for me. Votes: 3

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. Votes: 3

Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her. Votes: 3

Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism and increasing my understanding of people's different reactions to stress. Votes: 3

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical. Votes: 2

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. Votes: 2

Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them. Votes: 2

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. Votes: 2

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. Votes: 2

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. Votes: 2

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. Votes: 2

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. Votes: 2

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen. Votes: 2

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time. Votes: 2

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them. Votes: 2

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid! Votes: 2

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life. Votes: 2

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. Votes: 2

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed. Votes: 2

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 mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. Votes: 2

Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from. Votes: 2

Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love. Votes: 2

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 of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. Votes: 2

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men. Votes: 2

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity. Votes: 0

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done. Votes: 0

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression Votes: 0

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. Votes: 0

This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home. Votes: 0

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well. Votes: 0

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold. Votes: 0

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book. Votes: 0

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 me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. Votes: 0