"If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it."

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"If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it."

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"Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?"

Bill Maher, American Comedian

Home, Restraint, Right, Trade

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Home, Love, Feet

"A home without books is a body without soul."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Home, Soul, Body, Books

"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

Stephen King, American Author

Home, Truth, Belonging, Acceptance

"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Loss, Belonging, Emotion

"A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Mark Twain, American Author

Home, Cat, Pet, Loyalty

"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Home, Day, Healing, Public, Shadow

"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Home, Past, Present

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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Explore more quotes by Agnes Macphail

"Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone."

Life

"I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there."

Family

"Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate."

Woman

"It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name."

Change

"If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves."

Woman

"I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality."

Equality

"I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men."

Home

"I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels."

Man

"When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours."

Man

"Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it."

Woman