Quotes About Marriage

Marie-Antoinette'e hiçbir ÅŸey ikiyüzlülük ve rol yapma kadar yabanc? deÄŸildi; kocas?n? sinsice aldatmak ruhen onun tavr?na uymaz, ayr?ca o pek s?k rastlanan bulan?k kar???m, hem koca hem â??kla iliÅŸkiyi bir arada yürütme çirkinliÄŸi onun karakteri için söz konusu deÄŸildir.

Kekesfalva had told me: that Condor had a blind wife whom he had been unable to cure, and had married by way of penance, and that this blind woman, instead of being grateful to him, was a continual plague to him. But he put his hand on my arm with a warm, almost affectionate gesture.

There you are, you see. It's no use. You've chosen to be a married person. You mustn't expect to lead the life of a bachelor.' 'But

I don't think I shall marry if I'm asked. There's too much occupational risk.

My wife Staci made me go to a wedding last weekend...If it weren't for her, I'd be happy.

He clutched at my fingers--a spasm, perhaps, for the touch relaxed almost instantly. 'Jane.' 'My lord.' He smiled faintly, a curving of the lips; but the face was so haggard, and beaded with sweat. 'You cry, dear? Waste. Should've married you years ago.

If you tell someone you're divorced they don't even blink, but tell them you've never been married and they wonder what's wrong with you.

Fiancé. Americans had simply adopted a pronunciation from the French to sugarcoat the sticky implication of the word: Constrained. Bound. Trapped.

most people don't plan past the honeymoon. But reality sets in when it gets down to dirty socks and what's for dinner.

Men! Her mother actually wanted to marry one of these?

We all think we have our problems, but thank God we don't have husbands who don't support the Guggenheim.

The Victorians did not have some secret formula, since lost, about how to expect the best of marriage and still put up with the worst. Rather, they were much more accepting than we are today of a huge gap between rhetoric and reality, expectation and actual experience. In large part, this was because they had no other choice.

Another limit on intimate marriage in the nineteenth century was that many people still held the Enlightenment view that love developed slowly out of admiration, respect, and appreciation of someone's good character. Coupled with the taboos on expressions of sexual desire, these values meant that the love one felt for a sweetheart often was not seen as qualitatively different from the feeling one might have for a sister, a friend, or even an idea.

Like it or not, today we are all pioneers, picking our way through uncharted and unstable territory. The old rules are no longer reliable guides to work out modern gender roles and build a secure foundation for marriage. Wherever it is that people want to end up in their family relations today, even if they are totally committed to creating a so-called traditional marrige, they have to get there by a different route from the past.

S]ince the dawn of civilization, getting in-laws has been one of marriage's most important functions.

Men repeatedly noted how much easier it was to talk to other males than to women, and their journals often expressed the worry that being married to an angel might not be as easy as it sounded.

But the biggest single obstacle to making personal happiness the foremost goal of marriage was that women needed to marry in order to survive.

I do not believe, then, that marriage was invented to oppress women any more than it was invented to protect them. In most cases, marriage probably originated as an informal way of organizing sexual companionship, child rearing, and the daily tasks of life.

The expectation of mutual fidelity is a rather recent invention. Numerous cultures have allowed husbands to seek sexual gratification outside marriage. Less frequently, but often enough to challenge common preconceptions, wives have also been allowed to do this without threatening the marriage. In a study of 109 societies, anthropologists found that only 48 forbade extramarital sex to both husbands and wives.27

High male earnings have also become less important to women. A 2001 poll in the United States found that 80 percent of women in their twenties believed that having a husband who can talk about his feelings was more important than having one who makes a good living.11

But a woman's right to leave a marriage can also be a lifesaver for men. The Centers on Disease Control reports that the rate at which husbands were killed by their wives fell by approximately two-thirds between 1981 and 1998, in part because women could more easily leave their partners.32

In the 1950s married couples represented 80 percent all households in the United States. By the beginning of the twenty-first century they were less than 51 percent, and married couples with children were just 25 percent of all households.

Up until 1900, more than half the graduates from women's colleges remained single, many of them carving out careers in new fields such as social work.

The husband has the right to avenge himself if his wife is unfaithful. The village has known for many moons that White Eagle planned to steal Prairie Flower away from Howling Wolf. Howling Wolf has learned of this and punished his wife.