Emily V. Gordon Quotes
Marriage will not change your spouse. It will not make him or her more mature, more loyal to you, or better at housework.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
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My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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We live too long for one marriage.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.
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There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.
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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.
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I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.
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Marriage will not change your spouse. It will not make him or her more mature, more loyal to you, or better at housework.
