To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Women appeared to have less expectation of a reward, which in this case was the punch line of the cartoon. So when they got to the joke's punch line, they were more pleased about it.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.