“Relationship Principle 3
He doesn't marry a woman who is perfect. He marries the woman who is interesting.”

“If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

“Our prophet said: 'He is a poor man who has no woman, and she is a poor woman who has no man.' I will pick you up nevertheless and if you marry again, don't be afraid. But you know, not all men appeal to me.”

Ziad Jarrah (1975–2001) September 11th hijacker

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.”

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist

“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

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director

“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.”

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist

“If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.”

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer