A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

—Helen Rowland

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About Helen Rowland

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Helen May Rowland (; 1875–1950) was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a newspaper column in the New York World called "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909),...

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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar—a practice which is still continued.

—Helen Rowland

You will never win if you never begin.

—Helen Rowland

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Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

—Helen Rowland

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

—Helen Rowland

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

—Helen Rowland

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Our marriage license turned out to be a learner's permit.

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Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.

—Sarah Dessen in Lock and Key

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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

—Robert Anderson

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This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you do is the only thing that you can do: you take two things that ought to be together and you put them back together. Two things, not all things! That's the way the work has to go. You make connections in your work… That's what we do, we people who make things. If it's a stool or a film or a poem or an essay or a novel or a musical composition, it's all about that. Finding how it fits together and fitting it together.

—Wendell Berry

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Ever since I was a little kid, I've had trouble with transitions. I don't mean the usual life transitions of birth, death, divorce, moving—everyone has trouble with those. No, I mean the little transitions, like the one between waking up and putting my feet on the floor. Or between turning off the car and going into the house. Or between getting out of the shower and getting dressed. You can see why life has been very, very hard for me.

—Alison Luterman

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