In a bad marriage friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends we may go on for years intending to leave talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended and I wanted very much to be independent not take alimony from him be on my own do the right thing.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent go ahead. You can't have it all.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it constraints aping marriage develop.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven and if temporality is held to be invalidating then nothing real succeeds.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Before marriage many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.