A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Quotations
Marriage
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
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"
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"
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
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
