It is so demanding to be born into a house full of women, where everyone loves you so overwhelmingly that they end up suffocating with their love; a house where you, as the only child, have to be more mature than all the adults around.. But the problem is that they want me to become everything they themselves couldn't accomplish in life... As a result, I had to work my butt off to fulfill all their dreams at the same time. Elif Shafak
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No one can deny that our world is more harmonious with the presence of women. Women are the glue that holds families together. As they get older, their roles in the family changes. They stay at home and take care of the housework while the men go out to earn money.

This isn't very fair because it leaves women at home to do all of the work while the men earn all of the money. Furthermore, when women get married, they become their husband's second mother, which sometimes comes across as suffocation.

Source: The Bastard Of Istanbul

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