It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.
Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.
Television's an intimate medium. It's in our living rooms. It's in our bathrooms. It's in our bedrooms - and we respect that.
I guess housewives like to get away from reality and enjoy the fantasy world for a bit.
A woman, then, should not be a busybody, meddling with matters outside her household concerns.
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That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.
The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.
Half a century ago women were at an infinite disadvantage in regard to their occupations. The idea that their sphere was at home, and only at home, was like a band of steel on society.
This was her last public speech.
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused primarily on dismantling the top of the dominator pyramid (politics and economics) and left its foundations (domination in family, gender, and other intimate relations) in place.
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
The home is a woman's natural background.... From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly as it was possible in the commercial world, those standards of comfort and grace which are apparent in a lovely home.
I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door.
I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any domestic establishment.
I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.
It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.
I think women write more fully and honestly than men about heart and home.
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.
You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women.
