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.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette ' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl the life I had before - being single in a band girls everywhere - would be over.

There's already a marriage clock a career clock a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you and all at once.

A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard everyone knows it's hard.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

When undertaking marriage everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts and take counsel from himself.

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

When you're a father in a marriage you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it take care of it feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of um sunlight.

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife and I thank God for her every day.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called you know domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

Marriage changes everything.

Every marriage is a mystery to me even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

We sleep in separate rooms we have dinner apart we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.