Disclaimer by Renee Knight Catherine Ravenscroft – successful, married, and a mother – is shocked when a novel appears on her bedside table.
Far more than in previous generations, clever, successful men marry clever, successful women.
Dowd writes that successful women wish to marry successful men but that these men "marry down" instead.
But when Don Draper, the show's star, dumps the brainy consultant he has been dating and marries his secretary, he strikes a blow for equality of household income.Nowadays, successful men are more likely to marry successful women.
Soon thereafter, Fitzgerald, a successful writer, married Zelda Sayre.
The central character is a successful, happily married middle aged neurosurgeon called Henry Perowne.
It's the Alans, too — a curious fact, since Alan is successful, and married to the immaculate Janeane (Jada Pinkett Smith), with daughters of his own.
Twenty years later, Calvin is an unhappy, only modestly successful accountant, married to his high-school sweetheart, Maggie (Danielle Nicolet), a law-firm partner.
She was in her forties, a successful writer married to a Conservative Member of Parliament, with six children, when she fell in love with Pinter, a left-winger who was married to the actress Vivien Merchant.
Not only is this his first lead; Spall has reinvented himself as a lean, mean, six-packed machine, a successful novelist, married to the gorgeous Nat, played by Rose Byrne.
