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title: "4 Marriage Invented Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/we-invented-marriage-couples-invented-marriage-we-also-invented/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nujood-ali/marriage-was-invented-to-make-girls-miserable-i-will-never-get/)

[Nujood Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nujood-ali/)

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> [The problem with marriage is that it was invented when people lived to the ripe old age of 30.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hussein-nishah/the-problem-with-marriage-is-that-it-was-invented-when-people-lived/)

[Hussein Nishah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hussein-nishah/)

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> [“It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather it is the institution of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/it-is-not-we-as-individuals-then-who-must-bend-uncomfortably-around-2/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/elizabeth-gilbert-131_marriage_it-is-not-we-as-individuals-then-who-mus_3114953.jpg)

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