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title: "2 Laundry Quotes By Kathleen Norris"
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> [The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/the-ordinary-activities-i-find-most-compatible-with-contemplation-are/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84e/kathleen-norris-7283_baking_the-ordinary-activities-i-find-most-comp_50886.png)

> [Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/laundry-liturgy-and-women-s-work-all-serve-to-ground-us-in-the-world/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10d/kathleen-norris-7283_daily-tasks_laundry-liturgy-and-women-s-work-all-ser_316557.jpg)

## Other authors on Laundry

## More by Kathleen Norris

> [One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/one-may-have-been-a-fool-but-there-s-no-foolishness-like-being-bitter/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/the-ordinary-activities-i-find-most-compatible-with-contemplation-are/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [“At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/at-its-greek-root-to-believe-simply-means-to-give-one-s-heart-to-thus/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/in-any-free-society-the-conflict-between-social-conformity-and/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/before-you-begin-a-thing-remind-yourself-that-difficulties-and-delays/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/when-you-are-unhappy-is-there-anything-more-maddening-than-to-be-told/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [“I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/i-was-vaguely-attracted-to-both-library-science-and-accounting-for/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/hate-is-all-a-lie-there-is-no-truth-in-hate/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [“Well, they tell us meat isn't good for us anyway!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/well-they-tell-us-meat-isn-t-good-for-us-anyway/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/none-of-us-knows-what-the-next-change-is-going-to-be-what-unexpected/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/laundry-liturgy-and-women-s-work-all-serve-to-ground-us-in-the-world/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/the-demon-of-acedia-also-called-the-noonday-demon-is-the-one-that/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/only-christ-could-have-brought-us-all-together-in-this-place-doing/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [“In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display of wealth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/in-choosing-a-bare-bones-existence-we-are-enriched-and-can-redefine/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

> [“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/poetry-was-a-discipline-grounded-in-experience-that-drew-its-life-and/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

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