Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.
Copy QuoteBy all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Copy Quote View & ShareHappy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Copy Quote View & ShareMarriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Copy Quote View & ShareI love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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