Hmm...

"But mostly it was long stretches of waiting, trying to live her life, pretending she was independent and strong when she was just a woman spending her life waiting. For a man. So, who was the real fool, she asked herself with disgust..."
~A Cup of Friendship by Deborah Rodriguez~

I had this thought a couple months ago... How interesting that it would show up in a book I'm reading now. It's a good book, so far. About an American woman who owns a cafe in Kabul, Afghanistan. Here's another quote, by Donovan Hohn:

"Never mind that only 5 percent of plastics actually end up getting recycled. Never mind that the plastics industry stamps those little triangles of chasing arrows into plastics for which no viable recycling method exist. Never mind that plastics consume about 400 million tons of oil and gas every year and that oil and gas will in the not so distant future run out. Never mind that so-called green plastics made of biochemicals release greenhouse gases when they break down. What's most nefarious about plastic, however, is the way it pretends to deny the laws of matter, as if something-anything-could be made from nothing; the way it is intended to be thrown away but chemically engineered to last. By offering the false promise of disposability, of consumption without cost, it has helped create a culture of wasteful make-believe, an economy of forgetting."
~Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,000 Bath Toys at Sea and the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them~