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"With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits."
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."

"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."
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"If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court."

"On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family."

"There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development."

"With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits."
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