Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
Quotations
Marriage
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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 woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
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
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
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
