“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
#149 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=230eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OcoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3114,5294465&dq=the-institution-of-marriage-is-obsolete+fonda&hl=en
“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
#149 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“Marriage is a wonderful institution… but who wants to live in an institution?”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
James Dobson (1936) Evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and radio broadcaster.
On gay marriage, from [Marriage, family advocate in state to support Coburn, Carmel Perez, Snyder, The Daily Oklahoman, 2004-10-23, http://newsok.com/article/2871070]
2004
“Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
Interview in Motion Picture (October 1921) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton" http://www.silentera.com/taylorology/issues/Taylor68.txt
“It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.”
Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer
Masha Gessen (1967) Russian-American journalist and activist
"Life Matters — Why get married when you could be happy?" http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/monday-11th-june-2012/4058590 (11 June 2012 9:00AM), ABC, Australia
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 21
Abdullah Öcalan (1949) Founder of the PKK
The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (2017), Liberating Life: Women's Revolution
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963