Domestic Quotes

“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“I was able to shake off the near-death experience, and whether it was true or not, I was able to use it as some sort of moral validation as to the importance of my existence, or at least the importance of me completing this job, because clearly God, the universe or whoever understood that there was no other human being alive on this earth stupid enough to take this job.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

“When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“The secret to healing is when you learn that had the power all along. The brainwashing fades and the fears retreat as you rebuild and create the happiest you. Be strong and fight for the future of drinking lemonade in peace.”
― Tracy A. Malone

“She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state”
― Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural

“It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.”
― Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark

“Second, we can now see more clearly that domination begins at home. The fact that these arrangements became subjects of political contestation does not mean they were political in origin. Slavery finds its origins in war. But everywhere we encounter it slavery is also, at first, a domestic institution. Hierarchy and property may derive from notions of the sacred, but the most brutal forms of exploitation have their origins in the most intimate of social relations: as perversions of nurture, love and caring. Certainly, those origins are not to be found in government.”
― David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

“When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain before you can say 'Liquid-Plumr';”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.”
― Steven Magee

“The corporate controlled government is the biggest threat to national security.”
― Steven Magee

“Little pictures out of hell.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Shop where you stay, shop where you see smile, shop such so they sustain.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Si uno se deja domesticar, corre el riesgo de llorar un poco...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“All his wishes centred in domestic comfort and the quiet of private life.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Usually, a person would think of cooking as a domestic chore rather than an opportunity for critical thinking,” Dad observed during the conversation.

“That is true, but one cannot have an opportunity to critically think unless they make it an opportunity to critically think,” I replied. “Many people actually do see cooking as a mere domestic chore, and hence make it a mere domestic chore.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak."
"Women weak!" I exclaimed with a laugh. "Men belaud you as delicate and fragile, so as to delude you into thinking yourselves weak. But it is you women who are strong. Men make a great outward show of their so-called freedom, but those who know their inner minds are aware of their bondage. They have
manufactured scriptures with their own hands to bind themselves; with their very idealism they have made golden fetters of women to wind round their body and mind. If men had not that extraordinary faculty of entangling themselves in meshes of their own contriving, nothing could have kept them bound. But as for
you women, you have desired to conceive reality with body and soul. You have given birth to reality. You have suckled reality at your breasts.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery.”
― Amanda Craig, A Vicious Circle

“I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.
‘You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s wrong. He’s wrong!’ Vanian pleaded, I could feel the quiver of his magic, the wisps that were fighting against the iron burning into his wrists, I could feel the crackle as it fought in the air, against his emotions, against his pain. I shook my head, was about to speak but Adam grabbed him by the front of his shirt; as if a few more tears and shreds couldn’t go amiss. The tightness of his grip paled the Faerie’s cheeks, caused the blood to trickle down faster, dropping to the floor.
‘My wife.’ He yelled, ‘She’s my wife, silverblood.’ With each growl of a syllable he accented it with a punch to Vanian’s face.
I couldn’t take much more. I jumped over and pulled at Adam’s shoulders, fingertips driving into the nook of his collarbone, pressing down with as much as I had in me, anything to break his hold. He recoiled and rose his hand to me, at first I flinched but I stopped. He wouldn’t hurt me. He wouldn’t.”
― Charlotte Munro, Requiem City: The Butcher

“We are all in the era that will be remembered by historians as the 'Silent Corporate Government War On Humanity”
― Steven Magee

“Domestic Eroticism is wrapped in a veil of appropriateness”
― Ester Perel

“The military are facilitating domestic terrorism of the mass population by vested corporate interests.”
― Steven Magee

“The military meets the definition of domestic terrorism.”
― Steven Magee

“I see a lot of corporate domestic terrorism occurring and I do not see the military doing its job to eradicate it.”
― Steven Magee

“I regard SpaceX as a domestic and international terrorist organization.”
― Steven Magee

“I’ll get her back, one way or another, he thought as he worked into the evening. Money talks. Everybody can be bought or sold, even Alice.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution

“Family pictures are emotionally charged markers, the cheerful gang tags of the reasonably happy and domesticated.”
― J.L. Bryan, Maze of Souls

“Don't let your arrogance, violence, and stupidity destroy everything and everyone you hold dear. Your actions have consequences, and it's never too late to change your ways and seek help. Don't lose the love and respect of your family, friends, and community. Don't lose your freedom and your future. Seek help and support to overcome your struggles and become a better person. Remember, you are not alone, and there is always hope for redemption and forgiveness. Make the change today, before it's too late.”
― SHAILA TOUCHTON