"Few tasks are more like the torture of……" — Simone de Beauvoir

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with… - Simone de Beauvoir

"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won."

— Simone de Beauvoir

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