A woman's work is never done

Some respite to husbands the weather doth send, but huswiues affaires haue never none ende.
[1570 T. Tusser Husbandry (rev. ed.) 26]

A woman's work is never done.
[1629 in Roxburghe Ballads (1880) III. 302 (title)]

If you go among the Women, you will learn‥that a Woman's work is never done.
[1722 B. Franklin Papers (1960) I. 19]

‘Women's work is never done.’‥We shall never hear the whole of woman's work during the war.
[1920 Times Weekly 12 Mar. 209]

My grannie used to say, A woman's work is never done when it never gets started!
[1981 ‘G. Gaunt’ Incomer xiv.]

Related to: women; work

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