In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Quotations
Marriage
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
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
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
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"
