“The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative” MenFormDutyMarriedPrivilegeAcceptedAlternativesSubstitutesHappily Married Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.” PeopleThinkingChildrenTwoSometimesDutyProtectMarriedMadnessRelationSavedBoresLove Each OtherAway From Each Other Book:Short stories Source: Short stories
“Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.” OrderSocialResponsibilityMoralDutyMarriedGenuineRealmsCorresponding Book:Redeeming the Time Source: Redeeming the Time
“Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.” WantWantedEnergyFeltStruggleDutyMarriedIndiaDistractedEighteenSuffragettes Author:Indira Gandhi
“I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.” WayChildrenStillsRealMotherLeftWifeSacrificeDutyProjectsMarriedBeing TrueMy ChildrenAbandoned80sBeing MarriedPublic LifeTrue To MyselfI Love My ChildrenLove My Children Author:Patti Smith