Miranda July Quotes

In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I have a very intense marriage.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

It's such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person. I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids, etc. Love never ends, na?

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

To work with someone you love is something special, an incredible experience. But it could be a negative. You have to make a strong commitment to be honest; you're not just being polite, like strangers on an airplane; you're working.

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'