Anita Brookner Quotes

Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great.

For me, it's about being at home and living a life. Taking the dog for a walk, doing the shopping, emptying the dishwasher, going for a run.

I'm quite a domestic person by nature, and the nomad thing had got a bit stale on me, really.

I just like to be at home with my family.

I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

I'm getting all domesticated. I feel like Susie the homemaker.

I love domestic life.

I like my easy life at home. I like to live in Switzerland. I like to be with my wife, with my daughter, to take my daughter to school, to lead a normal life. I try everything possible to keep that.

As a little girl, my dollhouse allowed me to imagine a big, perfect, grown-up life in which I'd be effortlessly domestic.

The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

I try to be careful how much I sing about the suburban house or whatever.

I want to live a normal life - drive my kids to school, have tons of animals running around, be barefoot and pregnant. I want all that.

Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.

I love caring for my home and family.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

For us, we're homebodies. My wife and I like to be at home with family.

When we're home, we like to cook and be together and do mom things when we can.

If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.

When you're away from home for a fight camp it's the simple things that you miss the most. For me, that's laying on the sofa with my daughters and spending quality family time and small things like that.

There's something rather comforting about putting on an apron.