“Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they’ve accomplished something significant – which I guess they think they have, though all I can see is a future of washing some man’s clothes stretching ahead of them.”

“Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they’ve accomplished something significant – which I guess they think they have, though all I can see is a future of washing some man’s clothes stretching ahead of them.”

— Christina Baker Kline