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Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

—Norman Douglas, 1917

An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.

—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840

One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

—William Morris, 1882

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

—Rebecca West, 1912

Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1981
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