Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

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'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing that.

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.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

I'm sure a few marriages broke up because of feminism; it doesn't make feminism a cult.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

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

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Women—one half the human race at least—care fifty times more for a marriage than for a ministry.

A man must know how to act in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.

I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.

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

Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

Yes, it's still a man's world, unfortunately, and we have a long way to go in this country and all countries - but there's something to be said for just feeling the spirit of a true man, and I think that's what 'Classic Man' speaks to.

Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree).

I feel career women should avoid getting married.

There's a lot of pressure on women to look in a certain way. It's not easy to live in a world that objectifies women.

I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's lib.

The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes.