21st century Quote by Stephen Marche

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

Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike…

— Robi Ludwig

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and…

— Stephanie Coontz

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living…

— Debra Messing

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined…

— Keith O'Brien

The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't…

— Scott Lively

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

— Theodore Zeldin

Many alternatives to traditional marriage have emerged. People feel free to shop around, experimenting with several living arrangements in succession. And when people do…

— Stephanie Coontz

“Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.”

— Beth Pattillo

Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.

— Tennessee Williams

Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What…

— Sandra Tsing Loh