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Quotes About Marriage

Commitment is different in males and females. In females it is a desire to get married and raise a family. In males it means not picking up other women while out with one's girlfriend.
~ Rita Rudner
I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore
~ Cynthia Nixon
My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.
~ Lucille Kallen
The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women.
~ Mike Caro
Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.
~ Robert Graves
it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?
~ Roald Dahl
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
~ Erica Jong
The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.
~ Evan Esar
I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
~ Jeff Bridges
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
~ Alanis Morissette
Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.
~ Frederick Lenz
It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.
~ Phyllis Chesler
Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of sight of the women they're married to.
~ Rita Rudner
A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.
~ Gail Carriger
A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.
~ E. W. Howe
Many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage.
~ Edith Head
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert