I looked at him calmly and in a clear voice said, “You don’t have to take me, you know. I’m just grieving.” “I know,” he said, “but we have to. It’s the law.” This is not a representation of the patriarchy in practice. This is the practice of it. For a practice to become an institution, it has to be instituted and reinstituted. It’s a doing that has to be done.
