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As I grew to adolescence, I imagined, from closely observing the boredom and vexations of matrimony, that the act my parents committed and the one I so longed to commit must be two different things.

—Shirley Abbott

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Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.

—Barbara Ehrenreich

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Women hope men will change after marriage, but they don't; men hope women won't change, but they do.

—Bettina Arndt

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However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

—Virginia Peterson

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I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them — children, duties, visits, bores, relations: the things that protect married people from each other.

—Edith Wharton

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Marriage is an extraordinary thing, and I doubt if any outsider — even a child of the marriage — has the right to judge.

—Agatha Christie

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

—Rita Rudner

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

—Howard Nemerov

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A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.

—Evan Esar

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Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

—Errol Flynn

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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

—Charles Bukowski

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

—André Maurois

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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

—Bette Davis

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Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

—Shelley Winters

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