" In truth, the social rule that mothers should stay at home with their children had seldom been applied to poor women[...] And from the time there were factories in American cities, there were women, many of them mothers, working in the assembly lines." Without economic means, a woman has never enjoyed the luxury of deciding whether or not (or how little or much) she will work. To be 'at home,' as a woman, is an exercise of material privilege. And this begs us to let the Bible -- and not our privilege -- speak. "

― Jen Pollock Michel , Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home