Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Quotations
Marriage
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
