New Domesticity Quotes

“God goes home at night in the bodies of faithful women.”
― Summer Kinard, Can't Buy Me Love

“[Leslie Bennett] 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?”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity