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A woman's work is never done

  1. A woman must often work longer hours than a man. This comes from an old rhymed couplet:

    Man may work from sun to sun,

    But woman's work is never done.



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Aunt Ivy used to say, “A man just works from sun to sun. A woman’s work is never done.”

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When asked how it’s easier to be a man, one respondent, a woman, 65, said: “Because most of them don’t have to work outside the home and take care of the children and everything else a woman normally does. A woman’s work is never done.”

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“I’m just tired and I can’t sleep yet. A woman’s work is never done, isn’t that what the fools say? Here,” she pulled a small pair of pants out of a basket at her feet and rummaged for a needle and spool of dark thread.

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Because a woman’s work is never done, it began.

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For, notwithstanding the Men are commonly complaining how hard they are forc'd to labour, only to maintain their Wives in Pomp and Idleness, yet if you go among the Women, you will learn, that they have always more Work upon their Hands than they are able to do, and that a Woman's Work is never done, &c.

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