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"
Quotations
Marriage
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
