Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless… — Simone de Beauvoir
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.
In the original French
Il y a peu de tâches qui s’apparentent plus que celles de la ménagère au supplice de Sisyphe ; jour après jour... La ménagère s’use à piétiner sur place ; elle ne fait rien : elle perpétue seulement le présent
The Second Sex · 1949
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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.
Original citation
De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 2, Gallimard, 1949.