“Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.”
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“I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.”
“Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.”
“To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.”
“I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.”
“What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.”
“The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.”
“I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.”
“I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.”
“I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.”
“The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.”
“I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.”
“My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.”
“I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.”
“There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'”
“Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.”
“No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.”
“In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.”
“I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.”
“American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.”
“Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.”
“If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.”
“But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.”
“Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.”