I
think men who have a pierced ear are better
prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of
livelihood, and the total amount of undesired
sex endured by women is probably greater in
marriage than in prostitution.
-- Bertrand
Russell
1872-1970,
British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation
between man and woman. It is only man's egoism
that wants to keep woman like some buried
treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence
in love, the most changeable thing in this
changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck
in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and
legalities.
-- Leopold Von
Sacher-Masoch
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the
most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has
devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
-- Marquis De
Sade
1740-1814, French
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