He Told Me I Wasn’t Built for Motherhood and Walked Out — Five Years Later He Learned What He’d Signed Away in the Divorce He Was Too Arrogant to Read
She was in the business of manufacturing surrenders from women who could be made afraid enough, and I had walked into her office as a nearly perfect specimen of her raw material.
What she did not weigh, sitting there so sure of me, was that a frightened woman and a weak woman are not the same thing, and that fear, in the right person, does not produce a signature.
It produces a spine.
Chapter 7 — I Took My File and Walked Out
“Here is what she did not count on,” I said.
“I took my medical file off her desk, and I stood up, and I walked out of her office, and instead of signing anything, I sued the clinic for ethical violations.”