I let a woman call my daughter sneaky for two years because correcting her would have started something.

I let my husband tell me it wasn’t worth making a thing of, eleven or twelve times, and every time I accepted that I taught that apartment something about what it could do.

Nobody shaves a child’s head in a household where the mother makes a scene about the small things.

That is the sentence I would give to any woman who reads this.

Not watch out for your in-laws. Not install a camera, although I would say do that too, and I would say check the mortgage statement, and I would say look at the account with your own name on it at least once a year.

What I would actually say is: make the scene about the small thing.