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"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating."
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"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."

"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."

"You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget."

"Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice."

"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."

"I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot."
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"When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by."


"When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation."


"My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere."


"We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?"


"I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like."


"We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently."


"We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness."
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