Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers after marriage consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery about improper relations between the sexes about many things which the English public would not allow.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living their method of work a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives and we're told we can do everything - you know we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone in my opinion who you have to try hard for.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could with equal validity assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk yet both needs are important to a marriage.

After about 20 years of marriage I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken ruled raped. That was his theory.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Feminism is dated? Yes for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage prostitution forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know but they do.

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves the less they talk to other women the more they try to please their husbands the happier the marriage is going to be.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage children and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

I married beneath me all women do.

Faithful women are all alike they think only of their fidelity never of their husbands.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later for another thing they die earlier.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.