Patriarchy is so deeply rooted that a woman risking her body through pregnancy and childbirth is treated as ordinary, while a man doing a few household chores is praised as exceptional.
Women don't hate marriages. They hate what comes with being married.
Always the last one to eat, picking up plates, folding clothes, tucking their savings away, and breathing only when no one else is in the room.
When a girl gets married and crosses a new threshold, she's not asked but almost always expected to be lesser, quieter, and make do with whatever she's given.
If I could erase one word from the existence, it would be 'adjusลฅ. Because I have seen my mother adjust her entire life. And I hate it.
Young girls grow up watching their mothers playing God. A God entirely too sacrificial in nature to have a life of their own. And this instils into us a wavering belief in the concept of marriage.
Because we don't want to be Gods. We just want to be humans, and then girlfriends, wives and mothers.