“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.” PeopleWritingHas BeensTodayPastHouseMemoriesMarriageStreetsCenturyFieldsDifficultyLipsChiefsAssociationEchoesEnglish Words Author:Virginia Woolf
“My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.” HumansWellsMayDoeIdeasValuesInterestMarriagePersonalityMembersElementsComplexesAssociationPartnershipHuman ValuesSynthesis Book:Inheritance Source: Inheritance
“A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.” NumbersMarriageTrustSweetInfiniteObligationMutualAssociationConstancyGood Marriage Book:Essays Source: Essays
“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.” FeelsHumansEndsTogetherLiteratureInterestMarriageTrustSafeProfitAccomplishMutualAssociationSchemesMutual TrustMutual Interest Author:H. L. Mencken
“A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.” MenHumansLongEndsTogetherMarriageMen And WomenContactPoisonAssociation Book:Three plays Source: Three plays
“Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.” HardBeautifulAcceptingMarriageInstitutionsProtectionAssociationHomage Book:The province of the heart Source: The province of the heart