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"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."
"Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want."
"Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy."
"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."
"Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising."
"12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent."
"Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."
"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
"I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will."
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