Quotes About Domesticity

I'm a homebody, really, when it comes down to it.

I'm a homebody.

I'm the homemaker, and that's fine with me because I really like that.

Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches.

I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

I love being a housewife... I love doing laundry. Except I have a little bit of separation anxiety, and you have to separate your laundry, so I have a little bit of a problem there.

Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.

I really am a housewife.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

I guess housewives like to get away from reality and enjoy the fantasy world for a bit.

I do all my own shopping and housework.

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Fino ad allora la mia vita era stata decisamente solitaria e domestica, e questo mi aveva dato un'invincibile ripugnanza verso volti nuovi.

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.

El hombre mediocre es una sombra proyectada por la sociedad; es por esencia imitativo y está perfectamente adaptado para vivir en rebaño, reflejando las rutinas, prejuicios y dogmatismos reconocidamente útiles para la domesticidad.

I come home to an empty house and fill the sink with water. The pigeons above the window are clucking. I let the dishes slip under the bubbles and I close my eyes. I listen to the perfect, whole, round sounds of glass against porcelain under water.

Frank Skinner was a terrible flatmate in some respects. He never cooked and the cleaning lady refused to go into his room. But he was brilliant because he was very, very funny. You could just sit around at home and have a laugh without having to rely on any social arrangements.

I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

Puis elle remontait, fermait la porte, étalait les charbons, et, défaillant à la chaleur du foyer, sentait l'ennui plus lourd qui retombait sur elle. Elle serait bien descendue causer avec la bonne, mais une pudeur la retenait.

Blowsily, frowsily, comfortably, toothlessly, Mrs Candleton was sleeping away the afternoon in her hair-curlers and her pinnafore.

When I'm not touring, I really don't leave the house.