Domestic Relations Order

Famous quotes containing the words domestic, relations and/or order:

“Mighty few young black women are doin’ domestic work. And I’m glad. That’s why I want my kids to go to school. This one lady told me, “All you people are gettin’ like that.” I said, “I’m glad.” There’s no more gettin’ on their knees.”
—Maggie Holmes, African American domestic worker. As quoted in Working, book 3, by Studs Terkel (1973)

“Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)