Chores Quote by Mary Allsebrook

“She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby.”

— Anne Tyler

“She could only do what farmers had done for time out of mind; tend her crops, care for her livestock and help her neighbors…

— Michael Tinker Pearce

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores.”

— Naomi Stadlen

“She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent.”

— Gordon Dahlquist

“It seemed enough for her to just deal with whatever it was that came her way, calmly and without fuss.”

— Han Kang

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

— Charles Williams

“What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.”

— Emily C.A. Snyder

“Was there anything in her life that made her feel more in control than being wanted?”

— Josie Leigh

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng