God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582
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Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCHome is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC