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Servant or wife, man always reckons on woman to do the housework.
But woman, too, at least claims her share in the emancipation of humanity. She no longer wants to be the beast of burden of the house. She considers it sufficient work to give many years of her life to the rearing of her children. She no longer wants to be the cook, the mender, the sweeper of the house! And, owing to American women taking the lead in obtaining their claims, there is a general complaint of the dearth of women who
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― The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings
― The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings
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I no longer call such tasks "housework". I call them the "domestic arts," paying attention to all the ways they return me to my senses.
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― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
