avery

“Women always know. They live with the knowledge. They build a world for themselves that helps them avoid the pain and humiliation of it. They make their own happiness.” “Happiness?” He frowned. “Yes,” she said. “It is what we all seek, is it not? Men are free to find it in myriad ways. Women have to make their world small enough that they can enclose it and possess it like a precious gem. Derive their happiness from it. It is what being a woman means. It is what we are taught.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Love