I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
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"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
