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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
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Man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
Nikola Tesla
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
Ariel Dorfman
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King
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We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
Robin Morgan
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One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.
Judith Viorst
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There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.
Dodie Smith
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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
Edith Wharton
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Consider the standard two-person married couple.... They will share a VCR, a microwave, etc. This is not a matter of ideology or even personal inclination. It is practically the definition of marriage. Marriage is socialism among two people.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn't.
P. G. Wodehouse
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving – instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch
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Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Adams
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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
Milton Sapirstein
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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Harriet Martineau
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
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The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived. The fragile tie of ecstasy is broken in a few minutes, and thereafter there can be no remarriage.
Bernard De Voto
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During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.
Ayelet Waldman
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Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage…Like two out of every ten couples.
Neil Simon
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I support gay marriage because I believe they have a right to be just as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky Friedman
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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
John Lyly
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Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
Hanna Rosin
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