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God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

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

—Rebecca West, 1912

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.

—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895

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

It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.

—Horace, 19 BC

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

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.

—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC
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