As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marriage has made me safer.
I've always been wary of marriage.
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
I had thought a lot about unmarried life during my years as an unmarried woman - which was all during my 20s and into my 30s. I was someone who didn't have a ton of relationships as a single person - and so I had a sharp identification with singlehood.
For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.