Quotes of: Marriages Keyword

Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced...

The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

Marriage is a very strange thing. It’s a very public institution, it’s meant to tell the world that two people are going to live together, to declare that their children will be legal, that these children can inherit their property. It’s meant ...

Shashi Deshpande

It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.

A Fine and Private Place

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

Amanda Holden

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban chil...

Judy Biggert

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on televi...

Jenna Elfman

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

A relationship is a journey and many would think the destination is marriage. Well, no it is not! Marriage is another phase of the journey.

If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

Strategy for Marriage (Contract Brides)

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond

Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.

The Story of an African Farm

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

The Marriage Plot

That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good.

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful.

Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On

I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

Gary Johnson

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change th...

Agnes Macphail

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

Vanessa Kerry

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

Jeffrey Kluger

Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.

Gary Johnson