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"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."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."
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"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."
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"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
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"Husband: a former boyfriend."
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"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."
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"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."
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"When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman."
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"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."
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"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."
Exploration
"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."
Exploration
"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."
Learning
"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."
Imagination
"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."
Animals
"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
Marriage
"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
Lie
"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
Marriage
"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
Friendship
"It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country."
Family
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