Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

One of the basic forms of marriage, the practice of which, historically, had far exceeded that of any other form.

Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

When people start reconfiguring marriage, there's no going back.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

Marriage is not common in Sweden.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.