#marriage

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. ↗

— James Dobson

#couples #eludes #expect #find #i

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#family #marriage #relationships #family

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. ↗

— David Duchovny

#honor #marriage #responsibility #someone

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#capture #defined #developed #extend #institution

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #life #love #marriage #matrimony

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#amazing #because #being #example #good

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#between #i #i believe #i believe that #know

I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Harold Ford

#been #being #choice #could #further

I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#grateful #had #hadn #i #i am

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#attempts #clearly #failures #fiction #had