Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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In addition for the quotation from Nelson Mandela, we can add a quotation from Dr. Seuss: “Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?” In this quote, Dr. Seuss is pointing out the unfairness in the current society in which women are taught to think about marriage when they are young and men are not. He is asking why the one gender has been taught to think about marriage while the other gender has been left out of this process.

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

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