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Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn't the fact that you do the laundry.
Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn't the fact that you do the laundry.
Approximate author period: c. 1950 AD · modern
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- Alice Munro
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- Approximate author period: c. 1950 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Alice Munro: documented activity in 1950. Wikidata Q234819, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234819 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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