To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning. It doesn't necessarily have to be important to the people who read it.

To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.

Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too." [She] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married...) to my father. "You have to understand how little I was raised to expect that I desired in life, honey. Remember- I come from a different time and place... and you have to understand how much I love your father.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.