Quote by Julie Berry

“In truth, they were not given to quarrelling. Many couples who love each other more, quarrel more, and with less politeness.”

— George MacDonald

“Tolstoy meant that, in order to be happy, a marriage must succeed in many different respects: sexual attraction, agreement about money, child discipline, religion,…

— Jared Diamond

“In marriage, we may learn to check our words, and to submerge those feelings and actions which will inevitably lead to strife, but we…

— Gaynor Arnold

“Before, she’d envisioned their marriage as a battle waged between the two of them, where one triumphed and one surrendered, a contest for control…

— Glynnis Campbell

“Marriage, a second time around, scared the living bejeezus out of her,”

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

“In taking our marital arguments upstairs to avoid exposing the children to strife, we accidentally deprived them of chances to witness how two people…

— Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

“The girl knew that quarrels would come because their lives were intertwined - how passionately one defends a heart that is vulnerable.”

— Martine Leavitt

“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to…

— John Connolly

“she had to fight for qualities that had not been even in her vocabulary. Patience. Self-discipline. Self-control. Self-abnegation. Chastity. Adaptability to others - this…

— Doris Lessing

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“Time and again, she refused to let herself be drawn into the heat of battle, and watching her grow bold at the challenge, I…

— Jean Naggar

“On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to…

— Miranda Neville