#domestic

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers. ↗

— Ai-jen Poo

#employees #employers #their #whim

Shale gas has provided the United States the opportunity to have 100 years of supply that is domestically produced. If we are going to develop natural gas from shale, it has to be done in a safe and responsible manner. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#develop #domestically #done #gas #going

For the Wife Beater's Wife With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue Circling to yellow, circling to brown on her cheeks. The long bone of her jaw untracked She hides in our kitchen. He sleeps it off next door. Her chicken legs tucked under her She's frantic with lies, animated Before the swirling smoke. On her cigarette she leaves red prints, red Like a cut on the white cup. Like a skin she pulls her sweater around her. She's cold, She brings the cold in with her. In our kitchen she hides. He sleeps it off next door, his great Belly heaving with booze. Again and again she tells the story As if the details ever changed, As if blows to the face were somehow Different beating to beating. We reach for her but can't help. She retreats into her cold love of him And looks across the table at us As if across a sea. Next door he claws out of sleep. She says she thinks she'll do something After all, with her hair tonight. ↗

— Bruce Weigl

#domestic #domestic-abuse #domestic-violence #poetry #violence

I once had a dream; human was a chosen beast, domesticated by God to manage the planet earth. ↗

— Toba Beta

#domesticated #god #human #dreams

God goes home at night in the bodies of faithful women. ↗

— Summer Kinard

#new-domesticity #women #faith

Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a ten-dollar hooker around, if he's got any self respect, much less hurt his own woman. Much less ten times over the mother of his kids. A real man busts his ass to feed his family, fights for them if he has to, dies for them if he has to. And he treats his wife with respect every day of his life, treats her like a queen - the queen of the home she makes for their children. ↗

— S.M. Stirling

#domestic-violence #emberverse #stirling #family

Those tingles she’d felt in her abdomen spread lower. Her body recognised her lover’s voice, wanted him. ↗

— Starla Kaye

#erotic-romance #romance #erotic-romance

The collar represented something of big importance to her. He knew she saw it as losing who she was. He saw it as her trusting him enough to let him be in charge. ↗

— Starla Kaye

#domestic-discipline #erotic-romance #romance #erotic-romance

A man shouldn’t assume his wife was happy just because she didn’t complain all the time. She had complained this morning. He’d spanked her for it. That didn’t sit right somehow. ↗

— Starla Kaye

#erotic-romance #romance #spanking #erotic-romance

On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#energy #exploring #should #sources