“For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.”
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“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.”
“I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.”
“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”
“The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.”
“Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.”
“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.”
“There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.”
“Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.”
“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.”
“A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.”
“I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.”
“Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.”
“It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.”
“Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.”
“Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.”
“Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.”
“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.”
“We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.”
“I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.”
“Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.”
“Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.”
“I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.”
“Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.”