So
that ends my first experience of matrimony,
which I always thought a highly over-rated
performance.
-- Isadora Duncan
1878-1927,
American Dancer
Men marry to make an end; women to make a
beginning.
-- Alexis Dupuy
Marriage as an institution developed from rape
as a practice. Rape, originally defined as
abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage
meant the taking was to extend in time, to be
not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
-- Andrea Dworkin
1946-, American
Feminist Critic
Marriage is socialism among two people.
-- Barbara
Ehrenreich
1941-, American
Author, Columnist