Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Quotations
Marriage
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"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
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"
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's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
