#mar

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#family #female #home #ideas #longer

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#even now #high #high school #i #intact

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#guys #had #how #i #know

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #i love #john #love #marriage

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. ↗

— Connie Britton

#humor #i #i think #important #marriage

The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice to your spouse, be honest, be faithful, give alms to the poor, buy some insurance against fire and flood . . . I’m dead serious: The Buddha literally advised married couples to buy property insurance. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage #faith

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#always #being #beyond #breakthrough #crazy

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#because #bothers #century #end #how

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#been #belief #capacity #devoted #get

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#contrary #envy #free #free markets #incomes