“often these women marry or they are ruined some other way.”
Elfriede Jelinek (1946) Austrian writer
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Women As Lovers (1994)
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“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”
Cher (1946) American singer and actress
Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
A Little Book in C major http://books.google.com/books?id=EAJbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Bachelors+know+more+about+women+than+married+men+If+they+didn't+they'd+be+married+too%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage (1916) ; later published in A Mencken Crestomathy (1949) <br class="br">1910s
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Illingworth, Act III.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Variant: Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Theory held by Disraeli, cited in Sir William Fraser, Disraeli and his Day (1891), p. 142.
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Len Deighton book London Match
London Match (London: Hutchinson, 1985) p. 18
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
In response to the question, "You're comfortable with same-sex marriage now?" Meet the Press (May 6, 2012)
2010s