Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
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
