The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986
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Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCHave nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582