Quotes About Giving The Bride Away

#1. 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

#2. Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

Thomas Hobbes

#3. Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

Lauren Willig

#4. Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.

Muhammad Yunus

#5. The only topic you could not get Andre' to budge on was whether or not wrestling was fake or rehearsed in any way. I don't know if in Andre's case it was real, considering all the severe punishment he experienced, or whether he believed in the wrestler's code of never giving away trade secrets.

Cary Elwes

#6. Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.

Alison Jackson

#7. After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

Evan Esar

#8. Me and God we don't get along.

Lana Del Rey

#9. It's good to have a Ranger," Lula said. "He's like a personal Spidey.

Janet Evanovich

#10. Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of ... I lost it when my parents passed away.

Adam Beach

#11. One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

Jacques Chirac