Doe Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what the relationship…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“And why do most of us want marriage? Crave it for status or for stability that is an illusion. Marriage can’t protect you from…

— Delia Ephron

I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work…

— Thomas Mullen

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing…

— Margaret Mead

It is incredibly painful when you realize a marriage is not working, and it's so easy to get lost when you are making decisions…

— Phaedra Parks

I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

— Lisa Murkowski

Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.

— Danny Silk

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Marriage is designed to pull dysfunction to the surface of our lives, set it on fire and help us grow.

— Tyler Ward

Marriages struggle because we've set our marriages up to fail by thinking that this person is going to complete me when they were never…

— Mark Hall

“But people normally marry, and then they want that locked in time, so they think they're not going to change. We're going to change.…

— Paulo Coelho