Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition…The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present.


The Second Sex (1949) pt. 5, ch. 1

Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition…The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes ...

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition…The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes ...

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition…The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes ...

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition…The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes ...