Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
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If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
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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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Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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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 only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.
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It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.
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The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that would make me want to write.
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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
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I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.
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One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
