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“She can hear them all, all the voices of these women with their old-fashioned advice and well-worn adages about catching more flies with honey than vinegar, being vigilant about maintaining one’s figure, and that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. What did they know?…Clearly, there was no formula, no set of behaviors, no insurance policy that could guarantee fidelity.”
— Feb 27, 2025 05:47PM
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“In the silence left by the music, she hears the voices of her mother and aunts and the voices of her grandmother and great-aunts—the voices of the ages, the voices of generations of women who depended upon men for their happiness, who, like roses on a trellis, wound and looped and intertwined their lives over and around a man, relying on him for support and expecting him to hold them up.”
— Feb 27, 2025 05:47PM
