"I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks"
About this Quote
The intent reads as self-decompression. Socks are small, repetitive, undeniably real. They carry the smell of a day lived in a body - work, kids, travel, sweat - and washing them is both literal cleanup and symbolic reset. Moore isn't romanticizing housework so much as claiming agency over something that can't be staged. On a set, even intimacy is blocked and lit. At home, the basket is unscripted.
There's also a cultural wink at the way women in the spotlight are expected to be either glossy icons or inspirational superheroes. Moore picks a third lane: competent, tired, slightly amused. It's a subtle rebuke to the "having it all" narrative because it frames normal maintenance as a kind of sanctuary, not a sign of defeat. The subtext isn't "I love chores"; it's "I like a life that still contains chores". In an era where branding pressures everyone to curate their own myth, the socks are her anti-myth: proof of a private world that doesn't care who she is.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Moore, Julianne. (2026, January 16). I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-cant-wait-to-get-home-and-wash-all-those-socks-126597/
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Moore, Julianne. "I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-cant-wait-to-get-home-and-wash-all-those-socks-126597/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-cant-wait-to-get-home-and-wash-all-those-socks-126597/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.




