Motherhood Quote by Siobhan Fahey

A blunt origin story, told without apology: the domestic grind as cautionary tale, not nostalgic backdrop. Siobhan Fahey frames “housework” as life leakage, the kind of labor that vanishes the moment it’s done and somehow still gets treated like a woman’s moral duty. The line lands because it refuses the softer language we’re usually offered (helping out, pitching in, being supportive). “Waste” is an accusation aimed at the system that made her mother’s time feel disposable, not at the mother herself.

The subtext is generational and quietly furious. Fahey isn’t just describing a personal preference; she’s naming inheritance. Watching her mother “waste her life” implies a childhood education in what gender can quietly confiscate: hours, ambition, selfhood. That vow - “swore I’d never do that” - reads like a self-made contract, the kind a young woman writes when she realizes no one is going to hand her an escape route.

Then the punchline-with-teeth: “Dave does the cooking.” It’s funny because it’s plain, and it’s radical because it’s mundane. The sentence doesn’t celebrate an enlightened man; it normalizes a flipped default. In pop culture, empowerment is often staged as spectacle. Fahey’s version is logistical. The revolution is a chore chart.

Context matters: as a musician who built a career in industries that already punish women for aging, wanting, and taking up space, refusing unpaid domestic inevitability becomes less lifestyle choice than survival strategy.