The Woman Who Never Sat Down

Description

Women are taught to help before they are taught to rest.

From childhood, girls are expected to assist, adjust, and endure — quietly.
Brothers rest. Sisters learn.
Mothers work endlessly, eating last, resting never, and still being asked, “What more can you do?”

This book is not a complaint.
It is an observation.

Through short reflections, lived moments, and honest truths, She Was Never Lazy. She Was Tired. explores how women are conditioned to carry invisible labor — emotional, physical, and mental — without acknowledgment or pause.

It speaks about:

Why women’s tiredness is normalized

Why men’s exhaustion is taken seriously

How rest becomes guilt for women

How love slowly turns into exhaustion

How burnout hides behind responsibility

And finally, how we begin to unlearn.

This book is for mothers who never sit.
For sisters who replace them.
For women who feel tired but don’t know why they feel guilty for it.

She was never lazy.
She was tired — and no one asked her to stop.

About the Author

Shravanti Godavarthy is a writer who observes the quiet, unspoken realities of everyday life—especially the emotional and invisible labor carried by women. Her work focuses on themes of care, exhaustion, responsibility, and the silent expectations placed on women within homes and societies.

Rather than writing to accuse or provoke, she writes to notice—to give language to experiences that are often normalized and overlooked. Her writing style is reflective, honest, and deeply human, rooted in lived observations rather than theory.

The Women Who Never Sat Down is her attempt to document a truth many recognize but rarely name: that tiredness, for women, is often treated as ordinary rather than worthy of care.

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