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I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.
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A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing.
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I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.
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This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the thinking of a toddler.