The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
Quotations
Marriage
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
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
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
