Aditi Gupta

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Nietzsche believed that if Pity were to become the core of ethics, misery would become contagious and happiness an object of suspicion”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness