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Lucinda said that each person was free to narrate their life the way they saw fit.
“Better a boring husband than an unreliable one.”
“Exert some independence; you’re not a little girl. You can’t let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world,”
I felt a mute rebelliousness, a repressed rage, when I thought about marrying, having children, becoming a housewife, and living a banal life in my husband’s shadow.
According to the poem by Antonio Machado, “there is no road, the road is made by walking,”
He avoided talking about himself, and took to the extreme the Nordic concept of janteloven, which meant: Don’t think you’re so special—remember that the nail that sticks out is the one the hammer hits.
