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182. “The easy way out of this would be to marry Hank and let him labor for her. After a few years, when the children were waist-high, the man would come along whom she should have married in the first place. There would be searchings of hearts, fevers and frets, long looks at each other on the post office steps, and misery for everybody.”
Harper Lee
Marriage, Expectations, Independence, Choice, Life, Regret
183. “Sure, marriage is self-expression, but if only my art, my writing, isn’t just a mere sublimation of my sexual desires which will run dry once I get married. If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn’t I expect it in a man?” Sylvia Plath Marriage Expression, Desired Partner, Creative Fulfillment, Marriage, Partner, Fulfillment
187. “What he thought of her she knew, what he was capable of saying to her she had felt; yet they were married, for all that, and marriage meant that a woman should cleave to the man with whom, uttering tremendous vows, she had stood at the altar.” Henry James Marital Bonds, Emotional Understanding, Marriage, Bonds, Understanding, Emotional
207. “If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other's devils.” W.H. Auden Marriage, Love, Obstacles, Intimacy, Human Nature
210. “Even if she could have got so far without a quarrel, still there would have been a great hue and cry about the marriage itself. First, it never happened. Secondly, how could there be a marriage between a princess of the Warrior Caste and a boy of the priestly Brahman Caste? Her readers would have imagined at once that the writer was preaching against our social customs in an underhand way. And they would write letters to the papers.” Rabindranath Tagore Class, Marriage, Societal Norms, Critique, Narrative
Marriage Quotes by Famous Authors
182. “The easy way out of this would be to marry Hank and let him labor for her. After a few years, when the children were waist-high, the man would come along whom she should have married in the first place. There would be searchings of hearts, fevers and frets, long looks at each other on the post office steps, and misery for everybody.”
Harper Lee Marriage, Expectations, Independence, Choice, Life, Regret
183. “Sure, marriage is self-expression, but if only my art, my writing, isn’t just a mere sublimation of my sexual desires which will run dry once I get married. If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn’t I expect it in a man?”
Sylvia Plath Marriage Expression, Desired Partner, Creative Fulfillment, Marriage, Partner, Fulfillment
187. “What he thought of her she knew, what he was capable of saying to her she had felt; yet they were married, for all that, and marriage meant that a woman should cleave to the man with whom, uttering tremendous vows, she had stood at the altar.”
Henry James Marital Bonds, Emotional Understanding, Marriage, Bonds, Understanding, Emotional
207. “If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other's devils.”
W.H. Auden Marriage, Love, Obstacles, Intimacy, Human Nature
210. “Even if she could have got so far without a quarrel, still there would have been a great hue and cry about the marriage itself. First, it never happened. Secondly, how could there be a marriage between a princess of the Warrior Caste and a boy of the priestly Brahman Caste? Her readers would have imagined at once that the writer was preaching against our social customs in an underhand way. And they would write letters to the papers.”
Rabindranath Tagore Class, Marriage, Societal Norms, Critique, Narrative
