Different ways Quote by Richard H. Thaler

Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.

— Monica Johnson

Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers…

— William J Doherty

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.

— Anonymous

It no longer makes sense to see singlehood and marriage as two distinct and stable social categories that should be accorded different legal rights…

— Stephanie Coontz

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

— Marilyn Monroe

To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Married friends divide the world between single and married. The singles table is always so motley, and you feel undignified.

— John Cho

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who…

— Stephanie Coontz

Marriage is a very strange thing. It’s a very public institution, it’s meant to tell the world that two people are going to live…

— Shashi Deshpande

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

— Stephen Marche

We must recognize that there are healthy as well as unhealthy ways to be single or to be divorced, just as there are healthy…

— Stephanie Coontz