Emily Matchar Quotes:

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 the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, "Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?"

source: - Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Baby, Growing Up, Teenager, Domesticity, Homemade Cookies

It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

source: - Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Doe, Buckets, Vinegar

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

source: - Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Mother, Culture, American Culture