Your Name Here

"I think part of maturity for a woman may be to accept her own life as valuable regardless of whether it's attached to another's. Seeing our lives as worthless without a relationship to be a part of--this seems an almost entirely female condition, and is another thing we do to ourselves. Sure, a sociologist can tell us that patriarchal society inbred it into us. But we do have the individual intelligence to say: 'Hey, we don't HAVE to live this way!'"Mazza, Cris is the author of 'Your Name Here', published 1995 under ISBN 9781566890311 and ISBN 1566890314.