Marriage Critique Quotes

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

... fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there-because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don't think it should exist.

What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

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

I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You'd die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered.