Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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"
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"
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw