Quote by Lionel Shriver

“Wanting to get married, for me, is all about a desire to feel chosen.” She went on to write that while the concept of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I’m not getting married. I plan to live a life of bachelorette-hood. I’ll be eccentric, have nine cats, and wear blue eye shadow and…

— Jen Frederick

“the vast edifice of expectation and commitment that a marriage would pile on her.”

— Marius Gabriel

“I'm not sure I'm the marrying kind. I don't even know if I want kids. I'm still at the keeping-a-plant alive stage of my…

— Susan Mallery

“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little…

— Don DeLillo

“Afterward, she’d graciously analyzed every single nuance with me until she was convinced we were going to have a double wedding—our childhood dream—and I…

— Rachel Higginson

“Her feelings about marriage were . . . fanciful and unrealistic.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.”

— Jude Morgan

“And I loved her so much I couldn't conceive of ever parting from her; true, we never talked about marriage, but at least was…

— Milan Kundera

“Only the most passionate love could ever induce me to marry.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“I'm the kind of person who marries enthusiastically if they marry at all.”

— Agatha Christie

“I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic…

— Frederick Barthelme