Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Housework

Quotes about: Housework

• 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.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tasks, Cleaning, Endless

• 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

  Lying, Sleep, Dust

• As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Eight, Want, Lobotomy

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• Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Sleep, Dust

• There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Blow, Flying, Would Be

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• there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sugar, Duration, Jars

• Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mean, Dwelling Place, Giving

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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