Quotes Tagged With :domesticity

[Leslie Bennett] You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career,....

We are earthbound creatures, Maggie had thought. No matter how tempting the sky. No matter how beautiful....

As Liljana sat stitching a sampler or darning a sock, she dreamed her way into life as a grown woman....

I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your household....

she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was....

Gardening and making your own soap and home-birthing your babies are fine, but these are inherently limited....

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead....

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all....

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet....