Linda McCartney Quotes

I believe in traditional marriage.

Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined.

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

I do not mind if a PM or leader of the opposition is single but if he or she chooses to dispense with marriage despite living with someone and having children, then I think that shows a contempt for marriage which sends an unfortunate message.

I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.

I do believe in the traditional definition of marriage.

I don't think marriage is in the cards for me. I think it's an archaic institution.

I don't believe in the institution of marriage.

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.

We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

Men were never expected to be monogamous.

We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.