Leila Slimani Quotes

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

I come from a family of domestics. I think most African-Americans of my age do. They were trusted by their bosses. I have met so many white people that spent more time with their nannies than they have with their own parents.

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas...

I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.

As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

My mom was always someone who if, even now, I say I met a certain famous person, she always says, "She's married to so and so!"

It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Although political shows are really popular now, I think what sets this apart is this marriage and this family dynamic, and this way of revealing that people in positions of power or who have public careers are also real people. They have children and lives, and they have to deal with all of the things that everybody else does.

I just invited close friends and family, the usual suspects whose opinion I value but who I know will enjoy the film [Before I Go To Sleep]. I don't know how difficult it is for them to suspend their disbelief because they obviously know me and what they're seeing is not me.

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.

When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women are, and until women are as active outside the home as men are, we won't have democratic families, and therefore we won't have democracy, and we will continue this hierarchical notion of life.