Fay Weldon Quotes

I can tell you right away that no marriage is easy.

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

Brian and I have ups and downs like every marriage does. Although he's a legend, he's still, inside, an ordinary man, and I have got to remember that once we get inside the door, it's just us two.

I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.

Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

Free love never works.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.

Everyone knows marriage is tough.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with 'happily ever after,' leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed... I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.

All I can say is marriage is hard.