Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.
Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.
Giraldus claimed that he had heard about Eleanor's adultery with Geoffrey from the saintly Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, who had learned of it from Henry II of England, Geoffrey's son and Eleanor's second husband. Eleanor was estranged from Henry at the ti...
Roughly a month into my stay in jail, I began the first of twelve letters. The choice of titles had much to do with my reason (or circumstances) for being incarcerated: I was a parent of a past-marriage; and though the courts had dissolved the marria...
I'm going to make it very hard. I love you and I'm tired of being told what I should want and what I should do. You and I got married and I can stomp my foot and scream and rail at you because of the deal you made with my father, but the truth is I w...
When over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and flaws, yet commits him- or herself to you wholly, it is a consummate experience. To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known an...
Mutuality is accomplished by two whole persons; and if each partner truly intends to be but the fraction of a relationship (thinking my whole makes up half of us) he or she will soon discover that these halves do not fit perfectly together. The mathe...
So much in a relationship changes when a partner is seriously ill, helpless yet blameless, and indefatigably needy. I felt old. [p. 99] The animal part of him in pain accepted my caring. But the part of himself in that pain didn't believe I could eve...
Pia V. Sahastrabudhhe: [Now that everyone knows, Rancho's real surname is not Chhanchhad] Thank God, after marriage my name wont be Pia Chhanchhad! Raju Rastogi: So what is your actual name? Rancho: Phunsukh Wangdu. Farhan Qureshi: What? Pia V. Sahas...
Around the time my first marriage of twenty-one years was ending, I had spent a lot of time reflecting on the fairytale promises of living "happily ever after and being "forever in love." I thought about how the expectations of our families, friends,...
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
People regard art too highly, and history not enough
It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it".
Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.
A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason
Friendship is much more important to a man than marriage.
…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
