#domestic

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#black #came #children #cleaning #common

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#better #domestic #even #feel #happier

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#children #domestic #during #experience #female

Okay?” Even if she deserved to be punished, he always let her know he cared about her. ↗

— Starla Kaye

#domestic-discipline #erotic-romance #romance #spanking #bdsm

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#become #change #claus #domesticated #god

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#domestic #enemy #fallacious #hostile #more

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers. ↗

— Ai-jen Poo

#employees #employers #their #whim

The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#blends #brazil #consumption #country #domestic

Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#basically #been #bonds #debt #domestic

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#bush #bush presidency #certain #certain things #concerned