Busy Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and…

— Stephanie Coontz

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

— Theodore Zeldin

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

— Paul Newman

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

— Helen Fisher

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust…

— Louisa May Alcott

Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from…

— Rebecca Traister

I can understand how some women want to marry a rich man. They may be happy for the rest of their lives, but they…

— Rei Kawakubo

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves…

— Gloria Steinem

I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return…

— Wednesday Martin

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

— Helen Reddy

The economic freedom has come to a lot of us who are lucky, but many women are still beaten up by husbands, even when…

— Suhasini Maniratnam

“I don't understand why it's such a terrible thing for a woman to want wealth, anyway; we have as much right to it as…

— Jennifer Blake