Homemakers Quotes

“The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.”
― J.R. Miller, Home-Making

“If God is good, and if He wants us to subdue this planet, and if He wants us to obey the Great Commission and conquer this world for Christ, and if He tells half the human race that they're in charge of tending the home, it follows from this that the home is actually one of the most strategic and important tools by which the world will be won.”
― Rebekah Merkle

“A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

“If you give small, informal dinner parties, have a few long or short colorful skirts and dresses in jersey or flannel with gay party aprons to make your role of hostess festive yet comfortable.

If your husband's work means continuous parties, conventions, and entertainment, pep up your collection of after-five clothes with satin pumps in different colors.”
― Anne Fogarty, Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife