Alva Myrdal Quotes

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.

I'm happy in England and so is my family.

When you're happy at home, it spills out into every other area of your life.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home

I believe one should be a woman at home.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

I have so much joy in my life. I love my husband and kids so much. So much love. I'm also more focused now on spending more time at home and in town instead of going on tour. Because of that nesting, I find that I'm even more into writing and creating.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.