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“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.”

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Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.”

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Author:Samuel Richardson

“I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.”

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Author:Carol Grace

“I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing to submit to his lead. This does not mean I surrender my opinions or input or wisdom...it means I surrender my grip of control and selfish ways and trust him!”

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Author:Jennifer E. Smith

“In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”

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Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”

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Author:George Eliot

“The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.”

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Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader

“Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“You do not have to marry in order not to be alone- all you need not to be alone is to have some other humans to be your companions and close friends.”

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Book:Single, Married, Separated, and Life After Divorce: Expanded Edition

Source: Single, Married, Separated, and Life After Divorce: Expanded Edition

“...The only slogan we need in order to be happy in our home is: Love Each Other -three simple words. Apply the ingredients of love. Sacrifice for each other. Make each other happy.”

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Author:Nathan Eldon Tanner

“It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.”

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Author:Anna Wickham