marriage [Theme] Page 1

Marriage is not something to be done through force.

- What's in the sandwiches?

To get married is not a misfortune, as long as you don’t get married.

We are married, but we may have different opinions.

To be married means to be neither alone nor in anyone's company.

- If you were my wife, I would drink this coffee.

I married a man below my level. Like all women.

- You are looking for an angel, but there are no angels among men. No. Yes, and we, the women, are not saints. I'll tell you what, Catherine. I do not respect humility. <...> But we live, God forbid everyone. A man is a ruff - it doesn't matter, there would be a man. A kind word will always reach the heart. You do not skimp on a kind word.

- Probably happier. I didn't think marriage was so difficult. When you are alone, you are only responsible for yourself. But after marriage, thinking only about yourself is not enough.

Twice as smart as him, she looks at everything through the eyes of Dalloway - also one of the horrors of marriage.

... she hastily married the son of a neighboring blacksmith - otherwise the label of an old maid would have been firmly stuck to her. Now the sister is raising two children alone and is suing for child support.

- Because you are looking. You should just go and enjoy the journey.

For your children to be great, you must find someone who is your equal.

"You are ugly," they said, and I believed that I was ugly. “You are a poor, worthy man will not look at you,” she heard, and she herself did not look at the men. “Now you are old for marriage, so you will be alone for the rest of your life,” I believed and resigned myself to the fact that I would never have a husband. And all the time there was someone next to me to show me my place with a word, a gesture, a glance.