You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
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Jodi Picoult
As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but he don't know it, and that's...
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Mildred D. Taylor
Men can be relentless, " she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.
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Rae Carson
There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing--no, eager--to give a girl up to a man.
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Rae Carson
This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.
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Frances Hardinge
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