What I see in different shades of gray, from behind my reading glasses
I’m sticking to short notes for today – quotes or tweets or such stuff.. like this one..
I begin to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them: children, duties, visits, bores, relations, the things that protect married people from each other. -Edith Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)
Jill Filipovic, writing in the Guardian, plays the feminist & wonders why should women change their names after marriage. She recommends that men change theirs, or that the kids keep the women’s last name instead.
Your name is your identity. The reasons women give for changing their names after marrying don’t make much sense
Be prepared for a rather long read if you tackle the comments at the end of that article.
Old Bob Fulghum had me hooked to his writing when I was 16; when I read “Uh oh” from cover to cover instead of listening to an accountancy lecture on ‘double entry system of bookkeeping’. One of my favourite people (not just authors), Fulghum has some advice about marriage to his beloved god-daughter – and universally applicable to anyone contemplating marriage (or who’s already married). “Attend to your marriage, not your wedding.”