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.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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• Togetherness

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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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• 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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• I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

  

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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.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Marriage
  • Ideal
  • Togetherness