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

“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

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

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

— 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

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

“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

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

— 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

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

We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I asked for so little!” she kept saying, as though her diminished demands alone should have protected her against any disappointments. But…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that…

— 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

“Wanting to get married, for me, is all about a desire to feel chosen.” She went on to write that while the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know…

— 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

— 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

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large…

— Elizabeth Gilbert