“If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.” IfsLawMotherUniverseWinningWomenSonMarriedMy SonAwardsIn-lawsMother In LawBest MotherI Will Win Author:Laura Schlessinger
“Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.” WantMayPersonsLongSometimesStatesLawLoversMarriedQuittingSignificantGrantsContractsPortionsDoomedUnmarriedBad RelationshipMarriage Contract Book:Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage Source: Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage
“The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of the Feudal Lord from one to three days after their marriage, and from this custom the eldest son of the serf was held as the son of the Lord.... Marquette was claimed by the Lord's Spiritual, as well as by the Lord's Temporal. The Church, indeed, was the bulwark of this base feudal claim.” WellsSpiritualLawThreeChurchKnownLordAtheismSonMarriedClaimsPositive AtheismCustomsCompelledPreyServitudeMarried WomenEldestDishonorableSerfsEldest Son Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage
“I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.” IfsWantGivingWantedLawOrderMarriageExampleHusbandGiving UpMarriedDoctorsMedicineSakeLawyerMy HusbandMarry Me Author:Gwethalyn Graham
“In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.” Has BeensTwoLawFeltChristChurchViewsGraceSpecialTypeBenefitsMarriedPrivilegeBeing Married Author:Bill Vaughan
“As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.” IfsMenWayChildrenPersonsLawFoundJusticeLossWifeHusbandMarriedPrivilegeGuiltyProportionOffenseAdulteryHusband And WifeUnfaithfulDisgracefulGuilty Person Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens