Marriage Quote by Rebecca Traister

“Rape is rape. Whether marital, non-penetrative and the rest.”

— S. A. David

“He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.”

— T.C. Boyle

“A woman would have to be crazy to marry, or even have sex with, a man who would prosecute every lover’s quarrel like a…

— Francine Prose

“In 1969, University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon wrote that “the institution of marriage is the chief vehicle for the perpetuation of the…

— Rebecca Traister

“There is nothing more remarkable in human sociology than our attitude towards the institution of marriage.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Marriage was nothing but a primitive form of torture;”

— Mary Campisi

“Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they’ll marry anybody.”

— Anthony Powell

“Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.”

— Adam Ross

“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”

— Alain de Botton

“The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh?”

— Christina Engela

“It isn’t a case of marriage having been tried and found wanting. In this 20th century world, true marriage is deeply wanted, but largely…

— Richard Lessor

“Marriage is not an incidental human construction but a creational reality. Any sexual ethic constructed without a clear connection to a theology of marriage…

— Anonymous