Donna Edwards Quotes

As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love.

I, having no legal means of divesting myself of these odious powers put on record a formal protest against the existing law of marriage.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?

I have a lot of friends who, especially in Tennessee, were looking forward to getting married who wanted to wait until it was legal in the state that they live in to get married.

The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.

It's obvious that getting married and having children is a matter of personal freedom.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

For the first time in my life, I want the right to get married. I've met somebody who meets the criteria of what I've always imagined in and wanted from a partner - someone to marry and to bring children into the world with.

My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

Marriage equality changed life for people.