Merle Shain Quote

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others (1980)

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to...

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to...

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to...

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to...