What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.