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“The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.”

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Author:Nellie L. McClung

“When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.”

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Book:Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler

Source: Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler

“To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.”

“What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!”

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Book:Mrs. Warren's Profession

Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession

“Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.”

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Author:Herbert Spencer

“For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.”

“A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy"”

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Author:David O. McKay

“It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.”

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Author:Lois Wyse

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

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Book:When Harry Met Sally. . .

Source: When Harry Met Sally. . .

“Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.”

Source: Venus in Furs