A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.