Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Quotations
Marriage
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"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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
