Quotes About Domesticity

Every one seems to be scrubbing their white steps. All the houses look like tidy jails, with their outside shutters. Several have crepe on the door-handles, and many have flags flying from roof or balcony. Few men appear, and the women seem to do the business, which, perhaps, accounts for its being so well done.

Pan ácimo, gachas y agua para desayunar; pan, verdura y agua para almorzar; y pan, fruta y agua para cenar conformaban el repertorio de alimentos visado por los venerables. No había teteras que profanaran los fogones sagrados, ni filetes sangrientos que chillaran estertóreos pidiendo venganza desde las castas parrillas, pues los únicos sacrificios que se ofrendaban en aquel altar doméstico eran el apetito, el tiempo y el humor de una mujer valiente.

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 it as an ever-increasing roll of words like barbed wire, intricate, bewildering, uncomforting—set against the rich productions, the food, flowers, and knitted garments, of other women's domesticity. It became harder to say that it was worth the trouble.

I'd fire that woman if I knew how to operate a vacuum.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

Curlylocks, Curlylocks,Wilt thou be mine?Thou shalt not wash dishesNor yet feed the swine,But sit on a cushionAnd sew a fine seam,And feed upon strawberries,Sugar and cream.

There is only one republic to which I belong, of which we are citizens, we, honest people, who do not aspire, but who pay for the irreverent national domesticity. The Republic is us, it is the real France, the exploitable and exploited material; the priest of all these frenzied republics, of all those parties that have the property of others for dreams and laziness for idols.

vitrine. Upstairs his wife runs a vacuum cleaner; he can

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

God is probably — and very rightly — on the side of the stuffy domesticities. Otherwise

Las manos femeninas hacen milagros en silencio —pensó—, él probablemente habría roto toda la vajilla, en realidad ni siquiera habría sido capaz de llevársela». Contempló a la señora Grubach con cierto agradecimiento.

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.

Getting old is the second-biggest surprise of my life, but the first, by a mile, is our unceasing need for deep attachment and intimate love. We oldies yearn daily and hourly for conversation and a renewed domesticity, for company at the movies or while visiting a museum, for someone close by in the car when coming home at night.

Your kitchen is not inferior to a queen's boudoir!' I replied with a pleasant smile, 'but we must leave it now; for the gentlemen may be cursing me for keeping them away from their duties in the kitchen so long.' We both laughed heartily.

Ah," she said, "that's ever so much better," and took both boots and shook them out over the sink. "My stomach is full and I'm warm inside and out and it's time I went home.

There were women who fussed about their homes as if they thought life were a permanent examination where they would be found wanting.

How many late dinners of ham and pickled anchovies? How many arguments over the sock drawer—blacks mixing with navy blues—until they decided at last to have separate drawers? Separate duvets, as in Germany? Separate brands of coffee and tea? Separate vacations

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

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

then stay at home, paula, and become a housewife and help me with the housework and with the animals and wait upon your dada as i wait upon him and also wait upon your brother, when he comes from the wood, why should you be better off than me, I was never better off than my mother, who was a housewife, because in those days there weren't any sales assistants here yet, and my dada would have beaten me to death if there had been any.

De mens is een zoogdier dat zich er niet bij kan neerleggen dat er geen veiligheid bestaat en die dat tekort compenseert met een intense verspreiding van huiselijkheid.

My favorite days are at home. Spend some time in the garden, cook a couple of nice meals, watch a couple of movies. I'm pretty boring.