Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
-Barbara De Angelis
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
-speech, New York City, January 20, 1974
BILL COSBY:
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
BRUCE FISHER AND ROBERT ALBERTI:
Many people marry for the wrong reasons, among them 1) to overcome loneliness, 2) to escape an unhappy parental home, 3) because they think that everyone is expected to marry, 4) because only "losers" who can't find someone to marry stay single, 5) out of a need to parent, or be parented by another person, 6) because they got pregnant, 7) because "we fell in love," ... and on goes the list.
GAY HENDRICKS:
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG:
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
GLORIA STEINEM:
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and
a career.
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