Marriage Quote by Gail Sheehy

“We are told that modern couples aren’t as flexible as the Melanesians and many of the societies surveyed earlier. Now that readers have more…

— Lynn Saxon

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be…

— Margaret Mead

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,

— Margaret Sanger

“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

The development of family entities enables men to cooperate far more effectively. Instead of constantly competing for the women with other men, each man…

— Frans de Waal

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done…

— Gary Becker

“Monogamous romantic commitment, like infallible lifelong attraction to only men or only women, is surely a minority tendency expediently elevated to a general social…

— Hannah Black

For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics…

— Larry Niven

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

— Robert Bly

For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real…

— Audre Lorde

“Many people wake up in middle age with the realization that in their youthful romances and early marriages, they were drawn to precisely the…

— Sam Keen

All people change as they grow. The key to a successful marriage is to grow together, not apart!

— Nishan Panwar