Cook

Soup on the Stove; Men at work.

"It's like this, son. Men, we have to be something. You know, identity. Like a teacher, doctor, lawyer, engineer," he tried to think of something the boy could relate to. "Or pilot"

"And the girls?"

"The women. They're different. They can be something, almost anything you can be, but deep down, they know they will all come back to the same thing - wife and mother. So women, they do not look to be, because that is given them. No. Not to be, but to have. Women want to have and men, we cannot always give."

"I Understand."
"Do You?"
"Yep."
"Good. Bear that in mind. Less you expect, less you hurt."

~ Colin Cheong, The Stolen Child.