Ursula K. Le Guin: Flint had never washed a dish in his life. Women’s work...

Flint had never washed a dish in his life. Women’s work. But Ged and Ogion had lived here, bachelors, without women; everywhere Ged had lived, it was without women; so he did the “women’s work” and thought nothing about it. It would be a pity, she thought, if he did think about it, if he started fearing that his dignity hung by a dishcloth.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu