#marriage

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman... ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#women #marriage

Follow the Pfizer pill road! Follow the Pfizer pill road! Follow, follow, follow, follow, Follow the Pfizer pill road! ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husbands #infidelity #marriage #seperation

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#relationships #marriage

Maybe we could, um, go sit in the truck?" he said, but even as he said it, it sounded so dumb. And not exactly the way he wanted her to remember a marriage proposal. ↗

— Robyn Carr

#robyn-carr #romance #romantic #marriage

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #marriage #marriage

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves… ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#marriage #marriage

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#marriage #marriage

I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again. - Kristine ↗

— Martha Cecilia

#romance #tagalog #marriage

College feminists made fun of skyscrapers, saying they were phallic symbols. They said the same thing about space rockets, even though, if you stopped to think about it, rockets were shaped the way they were not because of phallocentrism but because of aerodynamics. Would a vagina-shaped Apollo 11 have made it to the moon? Evolution had created the penis. It was a useful structure for getting certain things done. And if it worked for the pistils of flowers as well as the inseminatory organs of Homo sapiens, whose fault was that but Biology's? But no--anything large or grand in design, any long novel, big sculpture, or towering building, became, in the opinion of the "women" Mitchell knew at college, manifestations of male insecurity about the size of their penises. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#penises #phallocentrism #marriage