#marriage

They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#grandparents #marriage

I am flagrantly nuts. I can say this because I am a doctor and I know about these things. ↗

— Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#marriage #prison #unconditonal-love #love

And then of course there was her opinion to consider. Would she ever care to entertain the thought of kissing him, let alone marrying him? He was willing to bet his life that she wasn't. Not yet anyway. Therefore, he had made up his mind. He had devised a carefully thought-out plan, its sole purpose being to eventually ensure Emily's hand in marriage. And he would do it the old fashioned way--through trickery. ↗

— Sophie Barnes

#romance #sophie-barnes #marriage

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love. ↗

— Adam Ross

#love

Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#jane-austen #relationships #marriage

In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of their close relationship, which does not seem to have undermined either woman’s marriage, coincided with Woolf ’s most productive years as a writer. ↗

— Jane Goldman

#marriage

Leonard and Virginia married in August 1912. Virginia was 30. Soon after her marriage she suVered another breakdown and her mental health declined sporadically over the following year, culminating in a suicide attempt in September 1913. They were advised against having children because of Virginia’s recurring depressive illness, a cause of some regret to her, and a point of much heated debate among her later biographers. ↗

— Jane Goldman

#marriage

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear. ↗

— Jed Rubenfeld

#marriage

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else. ↗

— Samual Rogers

#marriage