I didn't think about marriage as having any bearing on me or pertaining to my future. It seemed like holding political office or getting a scuba certification, a folly I had no interest in trying to pursue. When I was a girl, my daydreams were about animals and opulence and my friends, not a wedding or a husband. I wanted companionship and connection with a man, but marriage wasn't the form it took in my mind.

— An Honest Woman by Charlotte Shane (Page 121)