Education Quote by Bill Bryson

Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape,…

— Rebecca Traister

“It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the…

— Antonia Fraser

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

— Rachel Bilson

Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot…

— Rebecca Traister

In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other…

— Michele Bachmann

“People don't get married just to have sex with each other. Not in the last 100 years or so. Even in England.”

— Ros Clarke

“Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans…

— Stephanie Coontz

The problem with marriage is that it was invented when people lived to the ripe old age of 30.

— Hussein Nishah

“which had existed for 150 years, that married couples were not permitted”

— Brian Hoey

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered…

— Barbara Mertz

“this “right to marry” argument has enormous contemporary cultural traction in the West, which requires explanation if it is indeed obviously worthless. I suspect…

— Preston Sprinkle

My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too…

— Amor Towles