#marriage

If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all. ↗

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

#marriage #torrent #love

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#marriage

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#marriage #marriage

Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe! ↗

— Henry Rollins

#same-sex-marriage #marriage

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#independence #marriage #men #women #marriage

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#marriage #nikola-tesla #passion #marriage

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#powerlessness #marriage

I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#jane-austen #marriage #marriage

Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#men-and-women #relationships #marriage