Affection Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its…

— William Bolitho

... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage--only for appendages and…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

“Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner,…

— Anonymous

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

— H. L. Mencken

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be…

— Olive Schreiner

“The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other’s weaknesses and fears as much as we know…

— Nancy Thayer

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.

— H. L. Mencken

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that…

— Emma Goldman

“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

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the…

— Margaret Sanger

Marriage is a terrible institution, it creates such a regression of the mind.

— Fela Kuti

“Sometimes it strengthens a marriage to see the worst and find the sweetness of happiness later.”

— Christine Merrill