The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
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
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
