However, it was stated that in some cases, the older generation would promote the education of young women primarily for the sake of good marriage prospects.
She observes that William Dean Howells's novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham" depicts an upwardly mobile Boston businessman whose plans to build an expensive house have the object of making good marriages for his daughters.
"If our ups and downs in our marriage can help young couples sort of realize that good marriages take work... It's unfair to project a kind of perfection that doesn't exist".
"If my ups and downs, our ups and downs in our marriage can help young couples sort of realize that good marriages take work......
Judith Wallerstein, the author of "The Good Marriage" and "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce," says surveys of couples show that both partners say they would rather their spouse cheated anonymously than had a love affair.
She dreams of a Bollywood career, and of a good marriage.
Linda Duxbury, a professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, recalls moments in her marriage when she was hesitant to give up control. 1 2 Next Page » Tara Parker-Pope writes the Well column for The New York Times and is the author of "For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage," to be released May 6 by Dutton.
Tara Parker-Pope is the wellness blogger for The New York Times and the author of For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage (Dutton).
Darcy Anderson, the heroine of "A Good Marriage," sometimes senses the presence of another self behind the mirror: a "Darker Girl" when she was young, and later a "Darker Wife," living what she calls "the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward".
Hepburn lives on her own, in a stylish flat, but she inhabits a moment when a woman's career consists of a good marriage and virginity remains a unit of exchange.
