"... her work suggested a kind of infinite incompletion - that a
woman's work is never done; how the work of all the Marthas, and all
the Marys too, all the work, both temporal and spiritual, in this
world, and in preparation for the next, will never be over - always
some conflicting demand will occur to postpone indefinitely any and
every task. So ... there was no need to hurry!
Which was just as well, because she was ... almost ... worn out."
-- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus, Picador, London 1984, pp 95, 96
Quote with fabricwork found on the lovely Solveig Goett's exploratory work into textile narrative (The Textile Files).
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