Age Quote by Stephanie Coontz

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

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people...…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

— Hank Hanegraaff

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

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

— Lisa Kleypas

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

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

Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a…

— Hillary Clinton

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

— Julie Christie

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very…

— David Vitter

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when…

— Zak Orth

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin