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“I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.”

Turns Marriage Garden Partners Gardener Good Marriage

Author:Meryl Streep

“A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.”

Heart Ends Hands Beautiful Moving Turns Marriage Fire Quiet Consequence Madness Circles Cease Charm Accomplished Why Not

Book:Letters and Addresses,

Source: Letters and Addresses,

“What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.”

Turns Natural Marriage Wife Filled Instinct Tendencies Dismay

Author:Finley Peter Dunne

“I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.”

Children Home Lasts Turns Stuff Waiting Marriage Married Abuse Invisible Coming Home Child Abuse Daddy Feathers Pillow

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes States Turns Girl Women Marriage Four Twenties Remains Eight Wit Hills Thirty Rejoice Entering Repent Summit Eighteen Plunge Seventeen Wedlock

Author:Samuel Richardson