Mary Heaton Vorse Quotes

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore.

My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

Like nearly every female, I thought I'd get married and that would be it for life.

Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.

I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.

If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.

Girls and boys also face the societal pressure to get married which I find wrong.

I don't care much about society.

There's always somebody telling you what you're not supposed to like. But that's not the way I grew up.

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

It was fashionable, youre supposed to be a married lady, so I did.

No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all crap. All of it. Be yourself and do you.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.