Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Gloria Steinem

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Gloria Steinem

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Hubert H. Humphrey

There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.
Lynette Fromme

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Princess Diana

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
Princess Diana

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Richard Pryor

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
Richard Pryor

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
James Dobson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson