History Quote by Stephanie Coontz

Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.

— Stephanie Coontz

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

“Private relationships, intimate and otherwise, might be structured in many different ways, and the simple dichotomy between “single” and “married” does not do justice…

— Richard H. Thaler

“Those who say marriage is no different to cohabitation are perhaps less sensitive to issues of continuity. Legally and socially, marriage provided us with…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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

— Monica Johnson

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed…

— Rajneesh

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed…

— Dennis Prager

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations…

— Randy Neugebauer

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as…

— Ariel Pink

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

— Anonymous

I had thought a lot about unmarried life during my years as an unmarried woman - which was all during my 20s and into…

— Rebecca Traister

In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other…

— Michele Bachmann