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"Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave."

Elizabeth Gilbert on Marriage

More quotes about Marriage

  • "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

    Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage

  • "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

    Socrates on Marriage

  • "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage

  • "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

    Oscar Wilde on Marriage

  • "Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

    James C. Dobson on Marriage

More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

  • "What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce."

  • "I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be."

  • "There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right."

  • "What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce."

  • "Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration."

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