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"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley."
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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."
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"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."
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"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."
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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."
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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
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"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 women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."
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"When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his."
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"And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it."
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"When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that."
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"To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart."
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"It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow."
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"The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home."
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"Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now."
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"I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused."
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"I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers."
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"Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you."
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"We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person."
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