Edith Wharton Quote

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them — children, duties, visits, bores, relations — the things that protect married people from each other.


The Greater Inclination (1899)


I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved...

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved...

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved...

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved...