Accepting Quote by 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

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

Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when…

— Zak Orth

I don't believe in the institution of marriage anymore. It's redundant; it's an outdated institution. It's like lanterns in a house, you don't use…

— Vikram Bhatt

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

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed…

— Dennis Prager

But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as…

— Ann Coulter

Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage…

— Evan Wolfson

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change…

— Mike Huckabee