Quotes About Marriage

It has never worked—it never will. I don't know what you want to hang on to me for. You should have let me go at the beginning. Why did you beg me to marry you at Frederick that day? I would have got another man.

Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows." She chuckled, "The more fool you!

A month before our marriage, I knew it would be a well-nigh hopeless union, yet so great is a young man's idea of what is honorable and sporting that I could not renege: and so I determined that the union would be fruitful and from misery would come much happiness and splendid men and women;

Your old man sent me anonymous letters himself to make me divorce him." She rippled with he-hes. "I hung on to spite him. I didn't want him. It's my only pleasure left." She laughed.

I knew before marriage to Henrietta Collyer that she and I should never have come together, but a young man's sense of honor, so often mistaken, misplaced as medieval chivalry, prevented me from making the break.

Am I to spend the next twenty years in the high-minded company of a smug Philistine who doesn't so much as make me a decent husband?

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

La conséquence logique de la non-valeur de leur travail [aux femmes] est la course au beau mariage.

Ce n'est pas parce que le capitalisme achète et exploite la force de travail du mari qu'il exploite du même coup la femme. C'est absolument faux. Elle est exploitée par son rapport de production [l'exploitation domestique], c'est évident, pas par celui de son mari.

En prétendant que le mariage peut se substituer aux rapports de production dans le système capitaliste comme critère d'appartenance de classe dans ce système, on masque et l'existence d'un autre système de production, et le fait que les rapports de production dans ce système constituent précisément maris et femmes en classes antagoniques (les uns retirant un profit matériel de l'exploitation des autres).

Alors que le salarié dépend du marché (d'un nombre théoriquement illimité d'employeurs), la femme mariée dépend d'un individu. Alors que le salarié vend sa force de travail, la femme mariée la donne : exclusivité et gratuité sont intimement liées.

Si un divorce est la fin d'un mariage en tant qu'institution. Il n'a pas été créé pour détruire le mariage puisqu'il ne serait pas nécessaire si le mariage n'existait pas. En ce sens, comme bien des auteurs l'ont montré, même la fréquence des divorces peut être interprétée non comme un signe que l'institution du mariage est malade, mais au contraire comme un signe qu'elle est florissante. (p. 122)

It is extremely unlikely that anyone in the twenty-first century does not have some consanguinity in his or her family within the last three hundred years. Yet according to Feldman, more than half of all human populations today still engage in consanguineous marriage, and up to 10 percent of all humans are in first- or second-cousin marriages.

There may be cures to loneliness but marriage is not one of them

Norma, 1930s. "Whores make good wives, but madams don't. When you're making money in a whorehouse, that makes you independent and hard to get along with as a wife in the first place.

IT HAD BEEN ONLY a little more than a year since the world pulled out to celebrate the nuptials of the future king and his strikingly beautiful wife—eventually to become England's first working-class, university-educated queen. Now, in 2012, Great Britain

And she shared the philosophy Jackie expressed when a friend of hers warned that by marrying Ari she would fall off her pedestal. "It's better," Jackie replied, "than freezing there.

In his Interview in Les Nouvelles, Mosaddegh gave an unintentional insight into his own marriage at this stage when he described Iranian women as "more mother than wife." (p37)

The bodhi tree has been converted into a marriage tree. The belief is that young women who die before marriage should have a husband in the next world. Their relatives bring a wedding dress and monks to this tree and perform a wedding ceremony. The spirit of the dead woman is married to a famous singer, poet or magician who died many years ago. Their families believe that he'll be a good husband will look after each wife as if she were the only one.

To stay married, you need a fair amount of ignorance. Selective forgetting is what makes close proximity possible. It's what we forget about someone that lets us find some peace, some happiness.

That was when he'd fully understood that neither of them had every understood the other. A marriage couldn't survive that sort of epiphany, and their had been over just a few weeks later.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.