J. Courtney Sullivan - Commencement (2009)

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The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.

J. Courtney Sullivan

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

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If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

J. Courtney Sullivan

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

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She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

J. Courtney Sullivan