That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
We in middle age require adventure.
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.