“As you get older, you welcome people into your family because siblings get married and have kids. But then people also get divorces and things like that, and sometimes there's an exit from the family.” PeopleSometimesKidsMarriedDivorceWelcomeOur FamilySiblingExit Author:Justin Hartley
“I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked, "Would it be possible to incorporate visual art?" My sister stitches pillowcases, which led to Mary suggesting using cyanotype on them. I originally thought of the idea of pillowcases because when people get married, they have the bride and the groom lay their hands on each other's pillows while their relatives tie ribbons on their wrists. And then on the bed you usually have two pillows - one for yourself and one for your loved one - so when one is gone, one pillow remains.” PeopleArtTwoIdeasHandsGoneNew YorkMetsBedProjectsMarriedRemainsLaysTiesVisualsMy SisterLoved OnesMaryPillowBridesWristsSuggestingExhibitionsRibbonsVisual ArtStitchesOral HistoryPillowcases Author:Chath Piersath
“There's all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process, they obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.” PeopleWayKindProblemBigsFacesProcessResultsTeacherExampleMarriedEvidenceConsequenceVoteDollarsCorruptionSolveEnormousAll KindsBudgetsDistributionGetting Married Author:Akbar Ganji
“Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.” PeopleYearsChildrenStillsLastsThreeHalfMarriedMy ChildrenDozen Author:Vera Rubin
“I have people printing that I have. Never been engaged. As far as what I think of marriage, I think it's great. I think I'd like to be married some day, but I'll start with love.” PeopleThinkingMarriedEngagedBeing MarriedPrinting Author:John Krasinski
“Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.” PeopleYearsSaidWarDoneHelpingKidsYoungThreeCausesStuffMorningFourBuildingCoupleMarriedResearchDecidedScientistUniversityBlowConvincedRighteousnessAnti WarThey SaidBeing DoneArmstrongWisconsinVietnamese Author:Nat Hentoff
“I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsMomentsLastsYoungPoliticalOpportunityChurchPartyDyingHumilityMembersMarriedInstitutionsRefuseHarmEnormousRight ThingConfessionPolitical PartiesWrong ThingsRespondingWrongdoing Author:Anna Quindlen
“I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.” PeopleYearsKindCountryPlayStrangeMarriedCatVillain Author:Christopher Walken
“Kids need love and kids are not getting enough love in America because kids haven't been going the right way. We need to protect families by allowing same-sex couples to get married and also we need to protect religious freedoms because, in this country we allow people to practice religion or not practice religion.” PeopleWayNeedsCountryEnoughKidsAmericaSexReligiousPracticeHavensCoupleProtectMarriedAllowingRight WayReligious FreedomNeed LoveEnough Love Author:Brendon Ayanbadejo
“People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.” PeopleKidsLateMarriedToo Late Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Back when I was younger, I would have no fear climbing a ladder. I couldn't wait to get to the top just so I could jump off. Now I am married and raising my two daughters, and I'm not a kid in the WWE any more. People ask me how I am so fearless on a ladder and how I have no fear in the ring. And the answer to that question is a bit complicated. I used to have no fear, but that is no longer true. With a wife and two girls at home, I'm more afraid now than ever.” PeopleTwoHomeKidsUsedGirlAsksBitsWaitingAnswersWifeMarriedDaughterComplicatedRingsFearlessAsk MeClimbingWweNo FearLaddersBack WhenHave No FearTwo Daughters Author:Jeff Hardy
“No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.” PeopleTodayFacesThreeSimplePartyCoupleCostTaxesWasteMarriedNewsBiggerDenyArguingCelebrationGood NewsThree TimesBullsGetting MarriedMansionsTax SystemStraight FaceElkAntlers Author:Robert H. Frank
“Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a gift of brain wiring to those thousands of hours of practice, usually in favorable circumstances.” PeopleCertainHoursBrainPracticeTalentAmountCircumstancesMarriedSuperstarWiring Author:Kevin Maney
“Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.” PeopleWayLittlesChangedMetsMarriedLittle ThingsBeing Married Author:Julia Roberts
“I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldBelievePersonsStillsWarEndsCountryHomeWantedSchoolDesireValuesForceI BelieveSupportForeverGayBenefitsMarriedShould HaveSoldierDearPartnersOur CountryLiberationDistinctionServingPatriarchyBack HomeOld SchoolBisexualArmed ForcesPersonal DesireGay Liberation Author:Cleve Jones
“I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not. And perhaps the greatest change of attitude is that today, at least in Kenya, if you don't send your child to school - unless it's a matter of poverty or religion, and it is not that there no schools - then people wonder, "why the hell don't you send your children to school?" Now that's a very big jump from when I was going to school and educating girls was an exception to the rule.” PeopleIfsMenChildrenMatterBigsTodaySchoolGirlAttitudeWonderPovertyHellExampleMarriedDaughterOur ChildrenYour ChildrenExceptionKenyaException To The Rule Author:Wangari Maathai
“I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as a black woman, and that was just the end of it. So, I don't have a feeling of being bi-racial. I don't have a connection to it. People often come up to me thinking I do have a connection to it, and I kind of let them down because I really don't.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWorldKindEndsFeelingsBlackWhiteMarriedConnectionsRaisedCome UpBlack Women Author:Shelby Steele
“For a long time, people assumed I was gay, so when I got married the press were all a bit shocked and made a big deal of it - and ditto when I had children. I felt very much under the microscope with paps outside the house taking pictures of me getting the baby out of the car, it was excruciating. I remember getting her out of the car seat and thinking 'oh God I'm going to drop her and they're going to take a picture'. I was so nervous. Those sorts of things are really hard.” PeopleThinkingChildrenLongMadeHardBigsRememberHouseFeltBitsDealsCarBabyGayMarriedLong TimePressesNervousSeatsShockedBig DealMicroscopesTaking Pictures Author:Jo Brand
“I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.” PeopleThinkingKindPersonsLostLossCareersSawsMarriedLowsTrendsGrandchildrenNew MusicGreat GrandchildrenLow Points Author:Lena Horne
“I'm not against marriage, but I think it is not as important to me as it is for other people, for example. I think getting married would not change the way I feel about my girlfriend... And I don't know if that would make me happier.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsImportantExampleMarriedGirlfriendMy GirlfriendGetting Married Author:Enrique Iglesias
“I'm delighted that gay people now want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.” PeopleWantGivingGayBlessingMarriedWhy NotDelightedGay PeopleMy Blessing Author:Iris Apfel
“This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.” PeopleWayShouldMeanChildrenTwoPastMotherFeltSoundCareersGrowing UpTeacherGrowingGenerationsPlanetsGrewMarriedGrew UpMathPassingPassingsFormerFantasticNurseMath Teacher Author:Sherry Lansing
“Let me name three of the people who influenced me, although it's definitely not a complete list. Ayesha Jalal, the formidable Pakistani-American historian, has rigorously re-evaluated Jinnah's political strategies leading up to Partition. Akbar Ahmed, a former diplomat and now a distinguished scholar, has documented Jinnah's life as a man who welcomed, worked with, and even married people of other faiths. And then there is Ardeshir Cowasjee, the great Parsi newspaper columnist, who in his mid-80s is a kind of living history of all of Pakistan, old enough to have known Jinnah himself.” PeopleMenKindEnoughPoliticalMarriedLet MeStrategyHistorianScholar Author:Steve Inskeep
“I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, "Didn't you want to get married?" Well, sure, but it's not abstract, there has to be someone you want to marry. I'm pretty traditional. Marriage would have to come first, before kids.” PeopleKidsMarriedAbstract Author:Condoleezza Rice
“One of the things I'm most proud of that we've done here at WFMU - after various failed attempts - is to create a really healthy online community that feeds into the physical real-world community. It's spawned meet-ups in other cities. People even get married - they meet online from these chats that accompany every single program and are a really big part of what we do.” PeopleDoneCommunityProudHealthyMarriedProgramVariousOnline Author:Ken Freedman
“This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East Side women far outnumber men, if you do the sex ratios. I can't say exactly what they are, but you could google it. People have said two to one. So, it's a female display culture because sex ratios are skewed toward men, and they sort of have their choice, even if they're married.... Also, women are economically dependent on men, and so there's that aspect of needing to perform your beauty and your scarcity.” PeopleMenReasonChoicesCultureMarriedFemaleGoogle Author:Wednesday Martin
“Divorce is the hardest obstacle I've had to overcome in my life. I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive. My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there was a lot of bitterness initially. Although we are still divorced, we still call each other "family." It was a journey to get there, but it's a beautiful place to be.” PeopleBelieveTogetherBeautifulJourneyHusbandMarriedOvercomingObstaclesDivorceI RealizedTherapyMy HusbandBitternessDivorcedBeautiful Places Author:Regina King
“I believe that the vast majority of people that are unfaithful are monogamous in their beliefs. The ones who are not monogamous in their beliefs either live in poly relationships or consensual non-monogamous relationships, or they have divorced. If it's very bad, then people don't stay married these days in the West. They can be married and have their family, but they want something else - they want something that they don't have in their lives, or simply to be someone that isn't who they are in the context of their marriage.” PeopleBelieveBeliefI BelieveMarriedDivorcedBeing MarriedUnfaithful Author:Esther Perel
“The vast majority of unfaithful people are experiencing a conflict between their values and their behavior, and that is the mess of infidelity. It's not an either-or. The idea that you would ask, "How can you say you love your husband and you want to stay married, and you also are having an affair?" Because we are not the same woman, or the same man. Because sexual revolutions don't take place at home. Because for most of us, freedom wasn't something that we experienced in our family, but usually outside of our family.” PeopleMenHomeValuesLove YouRevolutionHusbandConflictBehaviorMarriedAffairMessOur FamilyInfidelityUnfaithful Author:Esther Perel
“Recognizing absolutely depends on the public that I'm out with. If I'm in Atlanta, it's definitely Why Did I Get Married. If I'm in Seattle, it's Spawn or something like that. I'm known for a lot of different things. People will call me Bone a lot, the action aficionados.. People who like comedy, they call me Black Dynamite.” PeopleDifferentActionBlackComedyMarriedBonesCall MeDynamiteSpawn Author:Michael Jai White
“When people get married, it enhances their relationship and puts strains on it.” PeopleMarried Author:Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
“One of the things, and the most exciting, actually definitely the most exciting thing is, having children. You know, I didn't have children before. I had been married only a year before my space station mission, so having three-year-olds is a whole new experience and that's the new adventure. It may sound funny because people have kids every day, but having your own kids, having my own kids, was as fundamentally, or maybe even more fundamentally life changing then even flying in space.” PeopleChildrenKidsAdventureMarriedExcitingFlyingLife ChangingHaving ChildrenNew AdventureMy Space Author:Leroy Chiao
“If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and those themes of isolation, protectiveness, loneliness tend to resonate with other people in major cities. In a sleepier village, where people are married with their children, me standing up and saying, "This marriage idea is a funny old convention that we invented" - various things that are deconstructions of the norms of a culture - if people have already made decisions like that, they're more inclined to say "Please, stop talking about our marriages, 'cause we're here now."” PeopleChildrenDifferentCultureDecisionAudienceLonelinessMarriedVariousIsolationNormProtectiveness Author:Simon Amstell
“It's funny, now that we have Twitter and Facebook and stuff, you can really see how you affect fans. Before all that, fans couldn't tell you exactly how they feel, unless they came up after a show, and even then you can't stand there and talk to everybody in the audience. So it's nice to see people tweet me and say, "Your music has changed my life," or "I had my baby to your music," or "I got married to your music." I've heard so many things, and it's amazing to hear people's stories and how you affect their life.” PeopleAudienceNiceChangedBabyMarriedTweetChanged My LifeMy Baby Author:Robert Glasper
“A wedding seems to be, unless you've been married more than once, so then it's a much more mellow affair - it's one of the biggest decisions you make in your life. Of course, half of marriages fall apart and most people end up being single again anyway.” PeopleFallDecisionMarriedAffairFalling ApartBeing SingleMellow Author:Lizzy Caplan
“Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."” PeopleMarried Author:James Toback
“I don't think of myself as a brand, simply a designer. A fashion designer who is married to an artist and together we have woven a body of worth through the years - with hopefully a recognizable signature. I look forward to one day becoming a brand... But that takes a business structure with brilliant business people to run it. I do look forward to that chapter in our life.” PeopleThinkingRunningTogetherArtistFashionOne DayMarriedBrilliantHopefullyDesignerFashion Designer Author:Isabel Toledo
“I see prenuptial agreements as a positive - not only from a professional standpoint, but from a personal one as well. I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.” PeopleThinkingImportantTogetherDifficultMarriedExpectationsDiscussionGetting MarriedLiving Together Author:Laura Wasser
“Whether you like it or not, the definition of family has changed. We have same-sex marriages now. We have more people who live together and have children even if they're not married. We have so many different definitions of family. I've got clients who have brothers and sisters living with them in the house, helping them raise their kids. It's a much wider definition now.” PeopleChildrenDifferentHelpingKidsTogetherHouseChangedBrotherMarriedBrothers And SistersYou Like It Author:Laura Wasser
“I think people should be allowed to do what they want to do. I think that it doesn't make sense for a certain class to be able to get married and be treated differently when others are not. But I don't equate polygamy with same-sex marriages - and I know you don't either. Polygamy is a different story because it has different class differentiations in it.” PeopleThinkingDifferentMarriedMake SensePolygamy Author:Laura Wasser
“People only live for forty or fifty years so if you were married for twenty or twenty-five of those then that was it. Now people live for eighty years and if your married for fifty or sixty of those you start to get on each other's nerves.” PeopleMarriedFortySixty Author:Zak Orth
“I find it very hard to say yes or no quite openly, because people are never satisfied. One day they write us off as saying we're not together and the next day we're together and getting married.” PeopleWritingTogetherOne DayMarriedGetting MarriedYes Or No Author:Freida Pinto
“I used to get tons of letters that said, "I'll never get to wear you," or "I'll never get married in one of your dresses," or "I'll never have an evening gown like the one I saw on the red carpet." I thought that was sad, because you give your life to this and you end up reaching very few people. So that was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be.” PeopleGivingGoalMarriedCarpetRed Carpet Author:Vera Wang
“There's always stuff to write about. So it's very gratifying on a lot of levels. This is stuff I got asked over and over again, or heard about. People would ask me about it, but they kind of knew the answer. It would be this ongoing question: "Your fans are wondering, now that you're married, are you still going to be able to write songs?" I'm serious! I would get asked that!” PeopleWritingKindSongWonderSeriousMarriedAsk Me Author:Lucinda Williams
“Twenty-eight to 31 is the tough period. You have to be really careful because it's so cataclysmic, so life-altering. People do really dramatic things like get married, or they'll get divorced. Your chances of committing suicide go way up. It's basically psychic death. You see the signs of it around 27, and you're still on the out-end of it around 31. Everyone I've talked to who's gone through that and come out the other side walks out of it like, "MY LIFE IS GREAT".” PeopleChanceMarriedToughSuicideCarefulDramaticDivorcedCommitting Suicide Author:Billy Corgan
“What will always be possible is for someone to walk into a dark room and experience a film and connect to it. And that's why I make my films - for people to go and have that experience. That's really the whole dream for me, so that hasn't gone anywhere. What has gone somewhere is making the numbers add up on each side of it. And who knows? I've had all kinds of freak-outs. I got married recently, and my wife listened to me go off the other day on this fear that maybe our culture has just moved beyond art entirely. Maybe we don't need it anymore.” PeopleKindArtDreamFilmCultureDarkWifeMarriedMovedMy WifeAll Kinds Author:Andrew Bujalski
“As an artist it's exciting to know that you've made someone's life decision after them listening to your song. To get married or un-married, when you realize that people are listening it brings a feel of responsibility that can't be ignored or denied. There's someone watching us. Whether an artist wants to admit that or not.” PeopleArtistSongRealizingDecisionResponsibilityListeningMarriedExcitingIgnoredLife Decision Author:Kelly Price
“When you get busy, the priorities change. In your twenties, you hang out with who you were in school with. Then you grow up and you hang out with the people you're playing ball with, things you like doing with. When you get married, it changes a bit and you lose some friends, or you gain other friends. You gain couple-y friends. It changes again when you have children, and then when your children are the focus of your life.” PeopleChildrenSchoolGrowing UpFocusMarriedOur ChildrenBusyPrioritiesYour ChildrenHanging Out Author:Paul Reiser
“Sex makes things strained. There are lovely people in Oneida, but everyone was married to everyone else. And you had fathers and mothers watching their twelve-year-old daughters being inducted into the group marriage by sixty-five-year-old men. There are creepy aspects of a lot of intentional communities when it comes to sex.” PeopleMenMotherFatherCommunityMarriedDaughterLovelyOld ManCreepy Author:Lauren Groff