“The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist — we can all see these unions: the marriages in which tenderness meets loyalty, where generosity sweetens moroseness, where a sense of beauty eases some aridity of the spirit, are not so easy for outsiders to recognize; the parties themselves may not be fully aware of such elements in a good match.”
The Pleasures of Love.
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Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov… 1913–1995Related quotes
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H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Statement regarding Frederick Douglass' marriage to Helen Pitts. * http://winningthevote.org/FDouglass.html
Western New York Suffragists: Frederick Douglass
Winning the Vote
2000
Rochester Regional Library Council
In defense of the right to...marry whom we please -- we might quote some of the basic principles of our government [and] suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control....If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union..
“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) journalist from the United States
Source: Selected Letters
“Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 28.
“She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.”
Sinclair Lewis book Main Street
Main Street (1920)
