Homemaking Quotes

• Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Reality, Important

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• The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

  J.R. Miller

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

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• Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof.

  Nate Berkus

  Love, Home, Together

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• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Friendship, Relationship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

  Ann Voskamp

  Home, Perfection

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• We need to understand that we need to get the work-life balance better for both men and women - by men taking on more of those roles of homemaking and child rearing - it's an important area that we still haven't got right. I do worry; it's not just in the United States, it's also in parts of Latin America.

  Mary Robinson

  Children, Latin, Men

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

  Edith Schaeffer

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

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• If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Home, Creativity, Reality

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Zest, Careers, Creative

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• I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Men, Wife

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.302, Open Road Media

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• Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

  Trinny Woodall

  Children, Self, Careers

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• Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Home

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• It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Husband, Flower

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• We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

  Nadia Giosia

  Home, Thinking, This Generation

  "Nadia G. Dishes On Her Hunger for Life". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2012.

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• When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

  George Eliot

  Children, Niece, Passion

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