Marriage Quotes by Anna Quindlen

“We're part of a mixed marriage: he's male, I'm female.”

— Anna Quindlen

A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can…

— Anna Quindlen

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show…

— Anna Quindlen

“There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form…

— Anna Quindlen

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the…

— Anna Quindlen

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male…

— Anna Quindlen

“Maybe that was true of marriage everywhere. Between times, in their own living rooms, the men seemed to be resting for the…

— Anna Quindlen

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like…

— Anna Quindlen

“My husband and I have together created three children, but we have separate finances, and that’s the way I like it.”

— Anna Quindlen

“I know from experience that those least capable of truly assessing any marriage are the children who come out of it. We…

— Anna Quindlen

“There are two kinds of men: men who want a wife who is predictable, and men who want a wife who is…

— Anna Quindlen

I think that after a while you realize that your husband can't be all things to you and certainly you don't want…

— Anna Quindlen

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as…

— Anna Quindlen

“Then when she really thought about it she realized she’d been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but…

— Anna Quindlen

“[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong…

— Anna Quindlen

“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the…

— Anna Quindlen

“It’s hard to imagine yourself in the future. It’s why people do so many dumb things, because they’re mired in the moment.…

— Anna Quindlen

“One day she had been out walking and she had wondered whether she had become a different person in the last year,……

— Anna Quindlen

“You make concessions when you're married a long time that you don't believe you'll ever make when you're beginning. You say to…

— Anna Quindlen

“Even in a marriage as truncated as her own—nine years, more or less—most of it is the mundane middle part. That was…

— Anna Quindlen