Advice-to-daughter Quote by Michael Ben Zehabe

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young…

— Jane Austen

“marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness,…

— Jane Austen

“Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans…

— Stephanie Coontz

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best,…

— Henry Adams

“Crucially, many of those radically single and late-married women were the ones who were able to devote their unmarried, nonmaternal lives to changing the…

— Rebecca Traister

“Like it or not, today we are all pioneers, picking our way through uncharted and unstable territory. The old rules are no longer reliable…

— Stephanie Coontz

“Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony.”

— Melanie Dickerson

It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer…

— Michael Chabon

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We've come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman's life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree…

— Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

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

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being…

— Honore de Balzac