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In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
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