Marriage Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

“i don't want to be marry anymore”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is not a game for the young.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“C. S. Lewis, when he wrote of his wife, “We both knew this: I had my miseries, not hers; she had hers,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In order for marriage to endure it has to change along with us, and it does that very graciously. And in the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You almost can't wait too long [to get married]. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Generally speaking, that's good drama - the marriage plot or the tragedy - but the reality of women's lives is that most…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I remember saying once to my friend Susan, when my marriage was becoming intolerable, "I don't want my children growing up in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Marriage is what happens "between the memorable." He said that we often look back on our marriages years later, perhaps after one…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“But gay marriage is coming to America first and foremost because marriage here is a secular concern, not a religious one. The…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“And even beyond the flaws, there are just some simple differences between Felipe and me that we will both have to accept.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather it is the institution of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“We Americans often say that marriage is hard work. I'm not sure that the Hmong would understand this notion. Life is hard…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I don’t think that marriage means to suffer endlessly, in order to prove that you can honor a commitment. I don’t think…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert