Disenchantment Quote by Caitlin Flanagan Download Open image “Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.” — Caitlin Flanagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disenchantment Efficient Engines Marriage Remains
Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“Marriage is powerful because even if we have no one else, we still have a built-in support ‘network’ (because spouses fulfil so many different… — Sam Owen Copy Share Image
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects... — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
“Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only ever a… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage. — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.” — Beth Pattillo Copy Share Image
Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
“There is a paradox at the heart of contemporary Girl Land, and this paradox makes the emotional experience of female adolescence more intense and… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough to love… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial and film… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast. — William Robertson Nicoll Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
