“No young woman should be placed in circumstances such as to make marriage an only refuge from poverty or dependence upon her friends or a life of ennui”

“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”

“Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.”

“A successful marriage puts an end to feminine friendships; but if marriage is a failure, the young woman must have others to confide in.”

“Though I was too young to understand the complexities of marriage, I understand that the premise of their disagreement was unfair. Why must a woman have to give up her passion after marriage when the same is never asked of a man.”

“We, on the contrary, make blessedness of life depend upon an untroubled mind, and exemption from all duties.”
Nos autem beatam vitam in animi securitate et in omnium vacatione munerum ponimus.

“The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman's dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.”

“Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God… I of all people know that that doesn’t always work!”

“Marriage is a union between two persons — one man and one woman. A woman who has given herself up to one, can not give herself up to a second, for her whole dignity requires that she should belong only to this one.”

“The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.”