Stephanie Dray

They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?

But women have to give hard thought to the men we'll wind up with. Make a mistake and get a drunk, a spendthrift, a cruel man. A man who won't keep his word. ... In marriage, man and woman become one, and that one is the husband.

And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...

The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.