#marriage

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#capture #defined #developed #extend #institution

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#i #i think #incredibly #like #marriage

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven. ↗

— Ben Elton

#feel #heaven #intense #love #made

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#between #i #i believe #i believe that #know

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#big #children #complete #fan #human

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#also #anything #arrange #becoming #catholic

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with. ↗

— Kelly Brook

#answer #bit #children #class #feminist

The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it. ↗

— Donald Barthelme

#home

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#humor #husbands #intelligence #intelligent #marriage

Never marry a person less educated than you. You, not only degrade yourself but also your kids will suffer whole life. ↗

— Himmilicious

#education