Stay At Home Quotes - Page 7

• Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Home, Land

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• I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

  Angela Kinsey

  Mom, Jobs, Home

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• The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Home, Mean, Fire

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.167, e-artnow

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• As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

  Hilary Rosen

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Hilary Rosen Apologizes To Ann Romney, Calls For End To ‘Faux War’ Against Moms" by Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I really dont go out at all; I just stay at home and watch movies and skateboard around the house.

  Michael Angarano

  Home, House, Watches

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• My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan

  Mother, Father, Home

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• When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when youre a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, Home, Long

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• Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate. They are like that; born invaders. They cannot stay at home.

  Rose Macaulay

  Home, England, Born

  1926 Crewe Train, pt.1, ch.1.

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• I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. Im great at pasta, fish and nice salads.

  Jordi Molla

  Nice, Home, Lunch

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• The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Eye, Home, Sight

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings”, p.277

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• A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Home, Men, Order

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.602, e-artnow

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• People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Christmas, Easter, Home

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• I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Mom, Home, Use

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• Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Children, Home

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• Working moms, stay-at-home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

  Hilary Rosen

  Mom, Jobs, Home

  "Rosen apologizes for Ann Romney comments". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. April 12, 2012.

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• When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Disappointment, Growing Up

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• I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

  Karen Hawkins

  Strong Women, Children, Home

  FaceBook post by Karen Hawkins from Jan 13, 2013

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• If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

  Hanna Rosin

  Husband, Dad, Home

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