I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination and skepticism.
— Elizabeth Flock
I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
— Elizabeth Edwards
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.
— Elisabetta Canalis
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
— Elbert Hubbard
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
— Edwin Louis Cole
Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
— Edmund White
I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.
Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
— Eddie Murphy
I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
— Ed Case
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
— E. W. Howe
When you're in a band, a marriage - whatever, it's kind of the same deal - there's a lot of things that you see, and people trust you with information about their lives. Call it a 'bro code' or whatever you wanna call it, but there are certain things you do not tell. At least, I don't.
— Duff McKagan
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
— Doug Stanhope
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
— Doris Day
I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.
— Donny Osmond
In any marriage, it seems, love is when you keep paying attention.
I think there is this cliche of Indian men who want a forward-thinking girlfriend but a traditional wife. I think that creates tension in a marriage.
I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!
— Elizabeth Bibesco
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
— Eleonora Duse
As a producer, I am dying to explore psychology and urban dilemmas - say, fatigue - in a marriage.
— Ekta Kapoor
Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.
First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'
Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community.
If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
— Eddie Cantor
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
Our brothers and sisters in the trans community, they showed up to every one of our marriage marches when it wasn't necessarily what they needed. So we have to be there for them, use our lessons learned in the marriage fight - how to win when it's difficult, how to change minds that are difficult to change.
— Dustin Lance Black
Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
— Drew Barrymore
I chose 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' specifically 'cause I had just made 'The Bourne Identity' and made a film that glamorized being an action hero, and I wanted to make the exact opposite. I wanted to make a movie that glamorized maintaining a marriage, and that made the action hero part seem easy and made the marriage part seem hard.
— Doug Liman
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
— Dora Russell
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
— Donald Johanson
There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne out of cruelty. And part of that six percent global divorce rate can be attributed to the powerful stigma against divorce that's present in countries where arranged marriage is common.
There's perhaps no better way to understand what's happening in a marriage than being inside the home.
I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
I'm a good role model. I have an amazing marriage, and it will be long lasting. I think I'm a good mom. I could run for office, no problem, because there are no skeletons in my closet.
— Elizabeth Banks
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
The United States is in a time of transition. Courts have redefined marriage, and beliefs about human sexuality are changing. Will the right to dissent be protected? Will the right of Americans to speak and act in accord with what the United States had always believed about marriage - that it's a union of husband and wife - be tolerated?
— Edwin Meese
Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
— Edmond About
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
— Earl Warren
How amazing is it that when a young gay or lesbian person has their first crush, no matter where they live in the country, they can imagine that all the way to marriage? When I first experienced a crush, in Texas, there was maybe a second of butterflies that were then dammed in by the fear of what that meant.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
— Douglas William Jerrold
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
— Doris Lessing
I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion.
— Donovan