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• Page 9         "...a marriage in which the man calls most of the shots is about as healthy as a master-slave combo."
                                  Fifty Years in the Bonds of Matrimony  by Anne Bernays
   

• Page 49        "We each married the person we wanted to see rather than the complex individual we'd chosen."
                                  Koan by Kathleen Aguero
   

• Page 50        "...marriage, like motherhood, eventually makes you face your worst self."       
                                  Koan by Kathleen Aguero
   

• Page 76       "Healthy complaining - even the occasional unhealthy rage - also keeps marriages together."
                                  A Twenty-First-Century Ritual    by Erica Jong
   

• Page 76       "Good marriages are noisy."
                                  A Twenty-First-Century Ritual    by Erica Jong
   

• Page 78       "But here is the strange thing about marriages: either they get better and stronger or they wither away."
                                  A Twenty-First-Century Ritual    by Erica Jong
   

• Page 79       "It's in the nature of life that we protect ourselves against things that never happen and utterly fail to contemplate things that do."
                                 A Twenty-First-Century Ritual    by Erica Jong
   

• Page 82       "We stomp where angels fear to tread, comment and tease and get away with murder because down deep we all secretly believe we are the same person."
                                Third Time Around  by Julia Alvarez (Writing about her sisters)
   

• Page 88        "There are a lot of little divorces that have to occur for a good marriage to last."
                                Third Time Around by Julia Alvarez
   

• Page 103       "Marriage has the potential to make us better people."
                                The Finish Line by Jean Trounstine
   

• Page 107      "The best thing about being  married is companionship, the sense that there is someone else on this earth - even though you sometimes hate him, even though he's sometimes infuriating - who is sharing the texture of your life."
                                Mrs. Married Person by Susan Cheever
   

• Page 109      "...having children is like throwing a hand grenade into a marriage."
                                Mrs. Married Person by Susan Cheever (Quoted from Nora Ephron)
   

• Page 121     "I am committed to the hard work I always knew it would be."
                                In the Ink of My Blood  by Maria Hinojosa
   

• Page 122      "In my most intimate and tender moments, the only person who my heart really hears is my husband."
                                In the Ink of My Blood  by Maria Hinojosa
   

• Page 157      "We are bound to each other because neither of us has the courage to start over again."
                                 First Person Plural by Helen Fremont
   

• Page 157      "Getting married is a little like sticking your feet in cement: it feels sublimely gooey and sensual now, but you know that it's going to feel constricting in time - stabilizing, yes, but dangerously...well...permanent."
                                First Person Plural by Helen Fremont
   

• Page 178      "Love is not two people looking at each other, but looking in the same direction."
                                Murmurs by Audrey Schulman
   

• Page 215      "I find my husband as fascinating as he is difficult."
                                Matching Luggage by Karen Propp
   

• Page 230     "We got married because we seemed to love the same things, yet we stay married because we respect the same principles."
                               Being Mr. Packer by ZZ Packer