Expectations Quote by Stephanie Coontz

Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible…

— Stephanie Coontz

We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

— Christopher Lasch

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

— John Kasich

Marriage is a wonderful institution that allows two human beings to go through difficulties together that they would never have had if they hadn't…

— Anonymous

Society grants benefits and legal preference to traditional marriage, because traditional marriage benefits society.

— Mike Johnson

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his…

— Jeanne Phillips

Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I believe in traditional marriage.

— Karl Rove

Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage…

— Evan Wolfson