A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Quotations
Marriage
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
