“I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.” ThinkingWantShouldAbleJoyChallengesCoupleGayMarriedUnderstoodCommittedDeny Author:Al Franken
“As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.” PeopleKidsAbleFocusMarriedPercent Author:Steven Lopez
“I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.” AbleLostMarriedInstitutionsPartnersSmarterConsideringGetting MarriedLost FaithComplete Me Author:Teri Polo
“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.” LifeLooksChildrenLittlesBigsSeemsAbleGrowsBoysGoneGrowing UpStrangeWindColdMarriedLandscapeOver ItRetirementRetiringBeing MarriedProcessionCold Wind Book:Feast of Stephen Source: Feast of Stephen
“It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.” PeopleYearsLooksAbleSoundIssuesRightsMarriedNewsMy FriendsRidiculousHorribleCivil RightsCaliforniaRacistTapeGay PeopleRidiculous Things Author:Busy Philipps
“Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.” Has BeensInspirationAbleTogetherMy OwnKnownCuttingTearsProductsKeysMarriedDevelopingBoardsHelpfulSheetsGetting MarriedPinterest Author:Dylan Lauren
“We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into you every which way that you've got to get married and you've got to have babies. That you're not a natural woman if you don't. So that led to a lot of sitting by the telephone and waiting for a call. And that led you into a culture in which you were always in a subordinate position without realizing it; hamstrung, not able to take action. That was the most important thing: you were always waiting to be desired.” IfsWayFirstsImportantAbleActionCultureWaitingRealizingNaturalPositionBabyGrewMarriedGrew UpSittingImportant ThingsVulnerableRomantic LoveTelephonesSubordinatesAlways Waiting Author:Vivian Gornick
“I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsAbleThreeFourGenerationsGayMarriedInstitutionsGay PeopleFour Generations Author:Dan Savage
“Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain again that there are other things to write about besides boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy breaks up with girl, girl is sad.” PeopleWritingBelieveMightAbleSongGirlBoysBreakMarriedBoy Meets Girl Author:Lucinda Williams
“It was definitely a big change in my life going from the college scene to really kind of being on my own. I got married and moved to Houston and started a whole new journey. It was scary in a way, but what's great for me is just focusing on gymnastics and my wife. I'm really able to put 100% into what my goals are.” WayKindWholeBigsAbleGoalMy OwnWifeJourneyCollegeSceneMarriedMovedScaryMy WifeGymnasticsHoustonChanging My LifeBig ChangesNew Journey Author:Jonathan Horton
“As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. in other words no one's ever talked me into anything.” KnowsMenWellsI CanAbleChurchReligiousMarriedArmyRegardAddSoldier Author:Charlton Heston
“As a single couple, we are no longer able to hang around with married couples 'cause they cannot be in our presence without getting very annoying. It's always like, 'So, when are you guys getting married? Huh? When are you getting married? When are you guys getting married?!' I dunno, you're married - when are you gonna die? You're already married, death will be next. When are you gonna die?” AbleGuyDiesNextCausesCoupleMarriedAnnoyingGetting MarriedMarried Couples Author:Greg Fitzsimmons
“Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken. Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its' the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it's almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can't take it. And at this moment you're a part of them. The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on. Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.” MenFeelsPersonsRealHardWholeMomentsLightAbleSexDifferencesSleepAbilityPleasureLaughingComfortableMarriedTreatsConnectedChickensFadesFeathersBeing MarriedMake You LaughKinkyBreathtakingSexinessBeauty Fades Author:Joanne Woodward
“We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd.” AbleCoupleGayMarriedAbsurdBeing MarriedOne Life To Live Author:Howard Stern
“Are you going to be able to shave your legs? Are you going to be able to get married? So it was constantly thinking about both choice in terms of possibilities - I mean because choice is the thing that is supposed to enable you to be whatever it is you want to be - and yet, at the same time you have to think about choice in terms of its limitations.” ThinkingWantMeanAbleChoicesTermPossibilityMarriedLegsLimitationConstantly Thinking Author:Sheena Iyengar
“What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people.” PeopleWorldWantWritingAbleSongMarriedDivorceAround The WorldRelateReally Cool Author:Colbie Caillat
“There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing wrong with getting old, or not being able to get pregnant, or being handicapped, or being short or tall or gay, or injured, or divorced or married to an idiot, or with Christianity or Judaism or Islam, or indigenous beliefs, or pollution, crime, war, Bush, etc. When this understanding grows, we realize where we're at now is just as perfect as wherever we could possibly get to.” WarReasonAbleBeliefGrowsProcessUnderstandingRealizingPerfectChristianityCrimeJudgingGayMarriedIslamIdiotEtcNo ReasonCriticizeTallPollutionPregnantFrustratedJudaismGetting OldDivorcedIndigenousInjuredHandicapped Author:Bryan Kest
“I think same sex couples should be able to get married.” ThinkingShouldAbleSexCoupleMarriedGay RightsMarriage EqualityGay CouplesSupport Gay Marriage Author:Barack Obama
“I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.” MenWantNeedsShouldBelieveHas BeensDifferentFeelingsKidsAbleSpiritualChurchMarriedTraditionRaisedAtheistTemplesHumanistDifferent Religions Author:Jodi Picoult
“Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.” PeopleMenWorldIdeasCountrySeemsMightAbleYoungPovertyEconomicShapesMarriedIslamRageYoung ManDecentDeclineGood LivingDecent Life Author:Salman Rushdie
“I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.” MenAbleGayMarriedMy FriendsBeing MarriedGay Men Author:Tori Spelling
“For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.” PeopleWorldWritingYearsMindImportantBookStatesPlayWholeStoriesProblemAbleModernTenMarriedEmptyHotHarmScalesWhole WorldGoing AwayState Of MindAfternoonHandsomeBeing MarriedModern Times Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.” LongSaidHardAbleTogetherAsksFeltCoupleMarriedAdultsMarried Couples Author:Randy Pausch