Domestic Autonomy Quotes

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.

Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home.

Mexicans refuse to live in vertical housing. Each Mexican wants to live in his own individual home.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

I live by myself. I come in the door, I can throw my stuff on the floor. I can leave the dishes.

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes.

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.