No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)

Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.