I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
I had been acting from a very young age and also performing with a dance troupe, the Kalakshetra Dance Troupe, from city to city. I needed a break. After marriage I took time off. That break lasted 24 years!
I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Divorces are getting so common that a woman I know doesn't bother getting a new marriage license. They just punch her old one and give her a transfer. You can't teach an old dog new tricks - so she keeps changing dogs.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
If you intellectualize the idea of marriage, it can be quite daunting, no matter how much in love you are.
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
Marriage is not for everyone.
The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
Everybody says marriage is 'til death do you part - and I've been married 29 years - but a book is really 'til death do you part. Once you write it, it's out there.
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
Marriage can feel like putting a burden on each other and sometimes kids go with that, too.
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
In a marriage, in a relationship there should not be your money and my money. It has to be our money.
A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
When Stephen Harper was elected as the new Conservative Prime Minister - and he talked about repealing gay marriage and putting it to a vote in the House of Commons - Elton and I talked about getting married in Canada to make a statement, for ideological and political reasons.
TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
I saw my friends being beaten because they said no to child marriage.
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'