#marriage

Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance. ↗

— Nya Wampaze

#bwwm #interracial-marriage #interracial-romance #education

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York. ↗

— Chris Christie

#believe #between #bill #i #i believe

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#been #conflict #constantly #family #family life

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#conscious #marriage #unconscious

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#any #closest #closest thing #earth #heaven

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#different #everybody #experience #friend #how

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#crises #escape #ever #feel #funny

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience! ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#i #marriage #married #toilet #well

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#father #grounded #marriage #mother #our