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"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
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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."

"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."

"When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman."

"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."

"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
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"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

"Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time."

"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."

"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."
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