#marriage

I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#gay #man #stupid #woman #marriage

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went. ↗

— Jeff Beck

#marriage #music #marriage

No one had told her this would happen, that her girlishness would give way to the solid force of wifehood, motherhood. The choices available were all imperfect. If you chose to be with someone, you often wanted to be alone. If you chose to be alone, you often felt the unbearable need for another body - not necessarily for sex, but just to rub your foot, to sit across the table, to drop his things around the room in a way that was maddening but still served as a reminder that he was there. ↗

— Meg Wolitzer

#relationships #women #marriage

I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after the usual tears and denial. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think I could place them in such a view. You will allow that in both man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty each to endeavor to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbors, or fancying that they should have been better off with any one else. ↗

— Jane Austen

#faithfulness #marriage #matrimony #faith

I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there. ↗

— Amy Hempel

#lovers #marriage #love

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#poetry #love

... gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual‘s private choice. ↗

— G.A. Hauser

#gay-rights #love #marriage #love

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition. ↗

— Ayelet Waldman

#marriage #love

In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage. ↗

— George Saunders

#page- #marriage