“ Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your gre… Charlotte Bronte
“ Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work. Criss Jami
“ It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w… Antonia Fraser
“ Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married wo… Christina Queen of Sweden
“ I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My temper is a mortal enemy to this horrible yoke, which I would not accept, even if I thus would become the… Christina Queen of Sweden
“ I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- . Know this at last. Charlotte Bronte
“ No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you.She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice be… Charlotte Bronte
“ [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. Michel de Montaigne
“ What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and y… Wallace Stegner
“ [In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,… Antonia Fraser
“ The ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man... Thomas Hardy
“ A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp. Michael Bassey Johnson
