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Elizabeth shook her head. "Our future happiness does not depend on whether or not we're married, Calvin-at least not to me. I'm fully committed to you; marriage will not change that. As for who thinks what, it's not just a handful of people: it's society-particularly the society of scientific research.
Everything I do will suddenly be in your name, as if you'd done it. In fact, most people will assume you've done it simply because you're a man, but especially because you're Calvin Evans.
I don't want to be another Mileva Einstein or Esther Lederberg, Calvin; I refuse. And even if we took all the proper legal steps to ensure my name won't change, it will still change.
Everyone will call me Mrs. Calvin Evans; I will become Mrs. Calvin Evans.
Every Christmas card, every bank statement, every notice from the Bureau of Internal Revenue will all come to Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Evans. Elizabeth Zott, as we know her, will cease to exist."
"And being Mrs. Calvin Evans is absolutely the worst thing that could ever happen to you," he said, his face collapsed in misery.
"I want to be Elizabeth Zott," she said. "It's important to me.
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