Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman’s business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such—as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association—the going will be hard indeed.
ATTRIBUTION:
Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978), U.S. poet, author. “The Honor of Being a Woman,” The Province of the Heart (1959).
