Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.