#domestic

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#hearth #real #sex #theater #war

Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#bringing #could #dollars #domestic #for the people

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals. ↗

— Donal Logue

#close #deals #domestic #dvd #even

In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything. ↗

— John Pomfret

#anything #because #domestic #easier #lot

Never let a man put his hands on you without your permission. ↗

— Melda Beaty

#notions-of-beauty #supermodels #womens-s-fiction #beauty

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#glory #home #stories #family

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27] ↗

— John Burnside

#family #fathers #violence #family

There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very necessary cleaning and repairing of the aftermath of living. Any man who has ever owned a gun has known Fatigue, when, after fifteen minutes in the woods and perhaps three shots at an elusive squirrel, he has gone home to spend three-quarters of an hour cleaning up his piece so that it will be ready next time he goes to the woods. Any woman who has ever cooked a luscious meal and ladled it out in plates upon the table has known Fatigue, when, after the glorious meal is eaten, she repairs to the kitchen to wash the congealed gravy from the plates and the slick grease from the cooking pots so they will be ready to be used this evening, dirtied, and so washed again. It is the knowledge of the unendingness and of the repetitious uselessness, the do it up so it can be done again, that makes Fatigue fatigue. ↗

— James Jones

#chores #domesticity #fatigue #futility #repetition

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood? ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#domestic #find #just #livelihood #machines

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#both #consumer #development #domestic #export