“To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.”

— Cassandra Clare

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

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Cassandra Clare 2041

American author 1973

Evan Esar (1899–1995) American writer

Esar's Comic Dictionary (1943)

“Mr. Lightwood," she said, raising herself up on her elbows. "Are thoseunder your bed?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.”

Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American journalist

Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, p. 5 (1903)
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“Marrying her to prove I do not subscribe to an outdated convention of class would be just as foolish as refusing to marry her because I did.”

Jo Walton book Tooth and Claw

Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 9, section 33 (p. 142)

““William will marry eventually,” he said in a quieter tone. He’ll try to have children—he doesn’t believe any of this.”
“Not even in God,” said Maria sadly, shaking her head, “who is our only hope.”
“And an unhelpfully remote and theoretical hope, at that,” Gabriel snapped.”

Tim Powers (1952) American writer

Part 1, Chapter 4 (p. 80)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

“Kitsy found herself at the hairdresser's beside General Hays, a widow. "I wish you would get married again," Kitsy said. "Why?" General Hays asked. "Because," Kitsy responded, "I want some man to learn what it's like to be married to a general."”

William Westmoreland book A Soldier Reports

Source: A Soldier Reports (1976), p. 264.
Context: Not long after I became U. S. Army Chief of Staff, the Secretary of the Army accepted my recommendation that the heads of the Army Nurse Corps and the Women's Army Corps be established as general officers. Soon after I had the honor of pinning stars on the first two female generals in the nation's history, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hosington (and establishing a tradition by giving each a kiss on the cheek), Kitsy found herself at the hairdresser's beside General Hays, a widow. "I wish you would get married again," Kitsy said. "Why?" General Hays asked. "Because," Kitsy responded, "I want some man to learn what it's like to be married to a general."

“It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home.
Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.”

Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) Religious leader, politician

attributed in page 85 https://books.google.ca/books?id=QSk0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 of 2017 book by Doreen Chilia-Jones "Say What?: 670 Quotes That Should Never Have Been Said"

although no further source details are presence in the above book, its presence in the fourth (1990) edition of the "Tahrirolvasyleh" was alleged since December 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20050106170121/http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/348
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