Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Quotations
Marriage
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"
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
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
