Women make marriage work? Women start homes and families? Women raise self-responsible kids who grow up to be good parents?
That's wrong, all of it. In consequence, so is everything else.
Only men can fix their marriages and make their families work, because marriage and family are the man's relationships from the outset. He initiates contact with her, he forges and fires their romance, he pops the question, weds her, beds her and pumps her full of his babies. He drives his family - sometimes right across the horizon.
And then he goes to...
Women can't fix marriage. Only men can.
Women make marriage work? Women start homes and families? Women raise self-responsible kids who grow up ...
Her smile deepened. "True marriage is a love so big that no one else can even see it - and so big that you and your lover can't see anything else. But it's little things accumulating every day that make it so big, and sometimes it's the tiniest things of all that let you see the whole.
"You can always spot the unhappy couples, because they're always squabbling, especially when they're pretending not to. And you can just feel the happy couples, because their love for each other seems to cascade over everything. But you can never be sure,...
"If you want your marriage to be wonderful..."
Her smile deepened. "True marriage is a love so big that no one else can even see it - and so big...
"The poetry off the page..." "You wanted the poetry, right? Where did you want it? On a page? Where it's safe and lifeless and undemanding? Little black marks on a printed page, the brilliant disguise of an unbounded emptiness... This is poetry. This is drama. This is life. Right here, right now. You were so lucky, weren't you? You had men who wanted you but didn't really love you, wouldn't let themselves, wouldn't risk it, wouldn't try. So you could dismiss them and repel them with your scorn. You gave them a reason to thank themselves for not taking the chance and you gave yourself the...
"The poetry off the page..." "You wanted the poetry, right? Where did you want it? On a page? Where it's safe and lifeless and undemanding? Little bla...
Embroidering the air with breathtaking humanity...
""Do you want me to teach you something very noble to say?""
"She nodded solemnly."
""This is the most noble thing I can think of for any human being to say: 'Do your worst. I will not kneel.'""
"She said, "Do your worst. I will not kneel.""
""That's right. Just the words, no special emphasis. Nobility triumphs when it fearlessly faces tragedy. And that, my Empress, is the most remarkable, wonderful thing that can ever happen...""
I put this book together for myself, so that I would have it available to present as a gift...
Embroidering the air with breathtaking humanity...
""Do you want me to teach you something very noble to say?""
