Marriage Quote by Philippa Gregory

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she now therefore nothing to do but to…

— Jane Austen

“She was his wife in every way that mattered and that would save her.”

— Ann Patchett

“If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry…

— Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“Bride had become the centre of his world. He was nothing without her. If he had to obey her every word for the rest…

— Gena Showalter

“Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.”

— Shulamith Firestone

“She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of the heart…

— Rupert S. Holland

“I was near to delighted laughter because Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who…

— Philippa Gregory

“Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in…

— Herodotus

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because…

— Philippa Gregory

“And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride…

— E.M. Forster

“There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will…

— Kate Chopin