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“To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a ‘righteous’ form of…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The number of marriages that were torn apart by prostitution is almost equal to that of those that it is keeping together.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sex was a lot of things, but it could be analyzed in quasi-economic terms. If women were shamed into traditional marriage-only monogamy and the…

— Zeb Haradon

“Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex ... without the guilt.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

— Alexander Chee

“Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Marriage is one long sacrifice.”

— Edith Wharton

“A woman isn’t just married to her husband, but to his whole family”

— Chanrithy Him

“He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.”

— Hilary Mantel

“Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

— Angela Carter

“Hey, I'm just teasing. Isn't that what husbands who are hopelessly in love with their wives do?”

— EL James