#marriages

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. ↗

— Clifford Odets

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I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. ↗

— Morton Hunt

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In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#had #marriages #parents #them

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret. ↗

— Ethel Merman

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France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America." ↗

— Helen Rowland

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I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#ends #every #great #great people #happy

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

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