Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.
Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing. That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard...
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.
I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.
There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.
Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.
It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass.
She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.
But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.
War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?
This daemon loves men whose marriage beds have grown cold, so she can set them ablaze.
