Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Let me know, Iain." "Let you know what?" "If you're going to keep her or not." "And if I'm not?" "Then I am.

I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell in love with that writer. But second of all, I had been married before and a source of marital strife was me needing to go away for a couple of weeks to write or it's Saturday and I think I just need to work today and not hang out with you.

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

My husband is always accusing me of being a context-free individual. He asks something and he has no idea where it came from or what it related to. I have to supply him with way more supplementary information than I ever have to supply my female friends.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.