Quotes About Feminist Marriage

#1. ... That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. ...

Catherynne M Valente

#2. What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

Rachel Cusk

#3. Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,
the ties that have made others dependent on us,
and would cut them in two.

George Eliot

#4. Pardon me; I must seem to you so stupid! Why is the property of the woman who commits Murder, and the property of the woman who commits Matrimony, dealt with alike by your law?

Frances Power Cobbe

#5. Numbness was what I craved. It was the rope I used to climb out of the black hole I'd otherwise be trapped in. Numbness was my savior, not my fear.

Bella Forrest

#6. When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

Wilfred Funk

#7. The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

Diane Watson

#8. My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

Jonathan Swift

#9. People think that I don't like women.

David Coverdale

#10. As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

Jessica Valenti

#11. A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

Eudora Welty

#12. If there is an itch one does want to scratch; but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch.

C.S. Lewis

#13. My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%.

Phyllis Schlafly

#14. Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ.

Philip Roberts

#15. Nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing ... and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows.

Stephen King

#16. Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

Karen DeCrow

#17. I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

Kelly Brook

#18. I am now ready to let go of anyone or anything that prevents me from being me.

Renae A. Sauter

#19. There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

Tom Berenger

#20. I was surrounded by love, and not some cheesy, overbearing, faux in-your-face kind of love, but real, intimate, I-know-all-your-quirks-and-habits-and-still-love-you kind of love.

Samantha Young

#21. Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even encouraged for both men and women, or in some combination where both partners are getting something out of it.

Amanda Marcotte

#22. Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!
Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!

Sherrilyn Kenyon