The first year was critical to my assessment of myself as a person. It forced me to realize that, like being married, having child...ren is not an end in itself. You don't at last arrive at being a parent and suddenly feel satisfied and joyful. It is a constantly reopening adventure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From three to six months, most babies have settled down enough to be fun but aren't mobile enough to be getting into trouble. This... is the time to pay some attention to your relationship again. Otherwise, you may spend the entire postpartum year thinking you married the wrong person and overlooking the obvious--that parenthood can create rough spots even in the smoothest marriage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she be...came a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the s...laves of brutal masters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know a lot of wonderful men married to pills, and I know a lot of pills married to wonderful women. So one shouldn't judge that ...way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »