Quotes on Domesticity

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

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 the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.