Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.