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“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. ”
“Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll...”
“All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The ...”
“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”
“It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the r...”
“Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer-if ever I wished a righteous wish-I am rewarded now. To be...”
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
“Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties”
“To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.”
“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”
“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”
“You know what my mum once said? said Rosie She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they mak...”
“A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days putting another first. She has ...”
“Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.”
“The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to pr...”
“Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. Y...”
“I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everyth...”
