Michelle Williams Quotes

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

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 was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.

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

If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.

My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.

I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

My parents really wanted me to have an arranged marriage when I was younger, but I think they have updated a bit with the times.

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married.

I don't believe in the institution of marriage.

For marriage, yes, people always had their opinions of, 'Oh, you're too young,' because it's become a stereotype, for some reason, for people to get married later in their 20s.

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

Marriage is not a reform school.

People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like "What? You're married?" Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. "We're having a baby." "What?" As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brilliant world.