“A man will work from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.” So goes a rhyme of unknown age and origin. This sweeping statement does not fit everyone, but it closely matches the lives and labors of most farm wives/mothers in the rural South before the modern era.
A woman's work is never done
Now and Then
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