Marriage is a wonderful thing.
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.
My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?