A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Quotations
Marriage
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
