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“As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.”

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Book:A Window Over the Sink

Source: A Window Over the Sink

“[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.”

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Book:Postcards From the Edge

Source: Postcards From the Edge

“As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.”

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Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.”

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Book:O Dreams, O Destinations

Source: O Dreams, O Destinations

“I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.”

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record