To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
— Richard Dawkins
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
— Reese Witherspoon
Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband's centrality and a wife's subsidiary nature.
— Rebecca Traister
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.
One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.
'Marriage' was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff, joint tax filing, etc. The real shocker was falling in love with the man I'm married to. I was 32 when we met, and I had really never been in a functional relationship before, had never been deeply in love.
Motherhood and marriage are the best bits of my life now. Who would have thought I would be enjoying that?
— Rebecca Loos
Seriously - quite seriously - I firmly believe that marriage is to be enjoyed and shared.
— Raymond Burr
Marriage should never become an adjustment or a compromise. Both the partners should be equally happy and willing to invest their love, care, and respect in the relationship - only then it works.
— Raveena Tandon
Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.
— Rashida Jones
I can say I've been a loyal husband. Marriage is based on trust.
— Ranjeet
When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
— Rani Mukerji
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
— Randy Neugebauer
One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
— Rand Paul
I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it.
— Ram Kapoor
You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. 'Into the Woods' follows that template, then asks, 'What happens after Happy Ever After?'
— Richard Corliss
In many ways, our marriage is anything but traditional. When I started my blog in 2006, Ladd was the only one that really understood what I was doing, probably before I even understood what I was doing. He wasn't tech-savvy, but he just got it and was totally on board with it.
— Ree Drummond
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping birth rate.
The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s. That, in part, had an impact on how the children of that divorce boom viewed marriage.
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.
There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
When I say, 'The choice to not marry,' that doesn't always translate into, 'I am a woman, and I am deciding that I am not going to get married,' or 'I am rejecting marriage.'
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
— Raymond Hull
According to the Bible, sex isn't something sinful, but rather a wonderful gift from God to be thoroughly enjoyed within the boundaries of marriage.
— Ray Comfort
An actress who has worked most of her life is suddenly expected to slow down and her work taken away from her completely after marriage.
I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.
Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.
I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
— Randeep Hooda
I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
I believe in the institution of marriage, but one can't fix a time for it. Please don't predict it for me.
— Ranbir Kapoor
I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
— Ram Charan
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
— Richard Armour
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
— Red Skelton
By demanding more from men and from marriage, it's single women who have perhaps played as large a part as anyone in saving marriage in America.
Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can't do so with a pseudonym.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
— Raymond Carver
I've seen my parents' long and successful marriage. I have never seen them argue or fight with each other, and the reason behind that is, I think, is that they always communicated with each other.
I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.
— Ratan Tata
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
— Raquel Welch
I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
— Randall Terry
Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
