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No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?


Charlotte Brontë


#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.


William Shakespeare


#courtship #dignity #empowerment #happiness #husbands

Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me


Elizabeth Gilbert


#gay-marriage #gay-rights #homosexual #humor #marriage

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.


Elizabeth I Tudor


#dignity #freedom #good-governance #government #independence

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...


William Shakespeare


#blessings #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)


Elizabeth Peters


#humor #husbands #intelligence #intelligent #marriage

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.


Clint Eastwood


#heaven-made #lightning #marriage #married-life #matrimony

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#bed-of-roses #love #marriage #matrimony #war

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.


Charles Dickens


#marriage #matches #matrimony #mind #purpose

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.


Samuel Butler


#matrimony #marriage






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