“Toni: Well… straight couples get respect when they marry. Maybe we need to make some kind of symbolic affirmation of our commitment to one another!
Clarice: You mean…
Toni: Yes! Let's open a joint checking account!
Clarice: Oh, darling! But this is so sudden!”

—  Alison Bechdel , book Dykes to Watch Out For

#7, "Getting Respectable" (1987), collected in More DTWOF (1988).
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