“So I ask you never to forget one thing. You are my wife, and if life becomes too hard for you as my wife, I want you to leave me.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“We like to think that the unpaid work women do is just about individual women caring for their individual family members to their own individual benefit. It isn’t. Women’s unpaid work is work that society depends on, and it is work from which society as a whole benefits.”
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“So I ask you never to forget one thing. You are my wife, and if life becomes too hard for you as my wife, I want you to leave me. “You don’t have to stay by me as a nurse. If I am no good as a husband, then I want you to leave me. All I ask is that you can do what you can as my wife. We are husband and wife after all. Even if I lose my memory, I want to be together as husband and wife. I cannot stand the idea of us staying together only out of sympathy. “This is something I cannot say to your face, so I wrote it in a letter.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“They were each other’s crutch to lean on when life got too much to carry alone.”
― A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
― A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
“It wasn't until later that she learned he could barely read or write. When she found it, she asked him how he managed to read all the long letters she wrote to him. Apparently, he just allowed his eyes to wander over them. Then he just wrote in his reply the vague impression he got from his gazing. But with the last letter, after casting his eyes over it, he was overcome with a feeling that he had missed something important. He read it word for word while asking different people to tell him what the words meant - hence the long time it took to reply.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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