Domesticity

You have a teenager

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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 … Read more

Horizontal hostility may be

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Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women’s liberation groups. … [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression. Florynce Kennedy

What if one happens

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What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful … Read more

I’ve done lots of

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I’ve done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I’m not ashamed of, but that doesn’t represent my legacy with the Pretenders…I think domesticity certainly doesn’t make it easy to write, you know, because you’ve got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions. Chrissie Hynde