“Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.”
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“Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.”
“Marriage is a risk I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.”
“Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.”
“Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?”
“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”
“Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.”
“I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.”
“Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.”
“I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.”
“I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.”
“Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.”
“I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.”
“For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.”
“In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.”
“I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.”
“Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.”
“Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.”
“That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.”
“The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.”
“Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.”
“I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.”
“I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.”
“Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.”