#marriage

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. ↗

— Sam Ewing

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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. ↗

— Vera Brittain

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A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. ↗

— Susan Faludi

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We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

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There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career. ↗

— Billie Burke

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I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage. ↗

— June Carter Cash

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It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage. ↗

— Sophia Bush

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For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#body #communities #constitutional #constitutional amendment #debate

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. ↗

— John Updike

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