"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 n..."
- Coco Chanel
"I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother."
- Martha Gellhorn
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
- Jane Austen
"Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse."
- P.G. Wodehouse
"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."
- Charlotte Brontë
"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 mee..."
- Elizabeth Peters
"A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life."
- Amit Kalantri
"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
"They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning."
- Clint Eastwood
"Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it ple..."
- William Shakespeare