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“I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.”

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Author:Chrissie Hynde

“We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.”

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Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.”

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Author:Jenna Fischer

“Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.”

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Author:Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

“The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.”

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Author:James Dickey

“As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.”

Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression”

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Author:Tracy Kidder

“I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids.”

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Author:Nick Hornby

“Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.”

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Author:Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

“You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living.... [A]t that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, "Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?"”

Source: Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity

“Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to destroy it. Families are the domestic church where Jesus grows in the love of a married couple, in the lives of their children.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.”

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Author:Adam Gopnik

“I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.”

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Author:Boris Johnson