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

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.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

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

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

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

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.)