#domestic

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. ↗

— Robin Cook

#action #agreement #britain #collective #commit

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on. ↗

— John Dingell

#american people #domestic #domestic policy #everything #foreign

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#certainly #country #domestic #eliminate #every

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#colonial #domestically #enough #helpless #history

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers. ↗

— Ai-jen Poo

#employees #employers #their #whim

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage and perform in a play for which she is not appropriately dressed, and for which she has not adequately rehearsed. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#domestic-life #loved-ones #numb-depression #preparation-to-face-the-day #putting-on-an-act

Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind. ↗

— Toba Beta

#domestication #education #teaching #education

My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another." "It's a very real power, Harriet." "Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#devotion #dignity #disagreements #domestic-life #equality

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

— Summer Kinard

#new-domesticity #women #faith

She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#domestic-abuse #domestic-violence #family #fathers #love