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It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. it is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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It's The Perpetually Unfinished Quality Of Housework

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. it is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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