“It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.” SometimesHomeAbuseHypocrisyThresholdReformers Book:George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
“In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.” FeelingsHomeTogetherHouseRoomsStreetsSafeMy FamilyWeightSizeHarmFatsAcknowledgeMumElephantsThresholdPlaygroundsFilthElephant In The Room Author:Caitlin Moran
“The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and out and out and out into the world which becomes the home wherein charity begins until it becomes possible, in theory at least, to love the whole of creation with the same patience, affection, and amusement one first practiced, in between the pouts and tantrums, with parents, siblings, spouse, and children.” WorldFirstsChildrenWholeHomeParentStreetsCreationTheoryDrawsCharityAffectionSpouseAmusementSiblingThresholdAnd OffPorchTantrums Author:Nancy Mairs