1. "Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household."
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Elizabeth George, Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart
2. "I wait, for the household to assemble. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part. The hold of a ship. Hollow."
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Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
3. "Are you not sunk in the mires of a household?"
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Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection
4. "Even she couldn't believe she'd spent so much money on household appliance. Money that she could just as easily have spend on handbags or bottles of wine. The only conclusion she could draw was that she was finally grown-up. Which was funny because in her head she was still sixteen and trying to decide what to do when she left school."
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Quote by Marian Keyes
5. "Every household needs one piece of furniture in really bad taste."
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Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
6. "Liquor was inexpensive, but the average colonist spent a quarter of his household income on alcohol."
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Susan Cheever, Drinking in America: Our Secret History
7. "Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household."
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Quote by Erica Jong
8. "The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place"
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Ivan Illich, Shadow Work
9. "Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything––nothing else 'answered;' and Lydgate supposed that 'if things were done at all, they must be done properly'–he did not see how they were to live otherwise. If each head of household expenditure had been mentioned to him beforehand, he would have probably observed that 'it could hardly come to much,' and if any one had suggested a saving on a particular article–for example, the substitution of cheap fish for dear–it would have appeared to him simply a penny-wise, mean notion."
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George Eliot, Middlemarch
10. "My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."
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Quote by Erma Bombeck