The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and i…

Germaine Greer
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The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow. ✨ Germaine Greer (1972). The female eunuch
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