I’ve learned—too slowly, but I have learned—that attempts to control others are likely to backfire. I worked for the passage of Prohibition because I earnestly believed women’s lives would be better—easier, as you say—if their husbands couldn’t go out and drink their paychecks away and come home and do the vile things drunk men sometimes do. But I was naïve. People’s wishes for their own lives tend to outweigh others’ ideas about how they should behave.” She paused. “We must bend in the wind sometimes, Jamie. So much is beyond our control.”
