I married beneath me. All women do.

This epigram turns a conventional boast (“I married beneath me”) into a barbed generalization about gender and social hierarchy. Read as deliberate provocation, it suggests that in a society where men are presumed the default “superior” sex, any woman who marries is assumed to be marrying “down” in status—an ironic critique of patriarchal norms disguised as a quip. It also plays on class-conscious language (“beneath me”), a register associated with aristocratic social ranking, to expose how marriage can be framed as a transaction of rank rather than affection. Because the line is often repeated as a stand‑alone witticism, its tone can be misread as simple snobbery rather than satire.