Matrimony Quotes - Page 2

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

Elizabeth Peters

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Martha Gellhorn

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

Charlotte Brontë

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.