Backyards Quote by Matt Dillon

“Unlike men writers who marry, most will not have the societal equivalent of a wife-- nor (in a society hostile to growing life) anyone…

— Tillie Olsen

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?”

— John Lloyd

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“No one marries for love, except in stories. People marry for property and position, and one day so will you.”

— Judith James

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

There's this whole kind of fiction and image that marriage is perfect.

— Ant Anstead

“It is noteworthy that few works of fiction make marriage their central concern. As Northrup Frye puts it, with his accustomed clarity: 'The heroine…

— Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

— Mae West

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered…

— Barbara Mertz

I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me.

— Anna May Wong