Equality Quote by Stephanie Coontz

I think that's what makes marriage work - when you allow each other to be strong in their chosen profession; when you support each…

— Erika Jayne

Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides…

— Robertson Davies

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our…

— Samuel Richardson

Serious relationships draw us away from the circle of friends that seemed so adequate, so fulfilling. Marriage cements these inward movements. Children draw partners…

— Kim Brooks

Many people, if they were to treat other people as they treat their spouses, would soon have not a friend in the world. Why…

— Jo Coudert

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

— Michel de Montaigne

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

— Imogen Stubbs

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a…

— Brian Littrell

“Married people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage...Friendship in a marriage is so important. It blows…

— Marion D. Hanks

Marriage is a commitment, so you always have to work at it.

— Eva Longoria

Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other…

— Stephanie Coontz