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Marge Piercy

"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats."

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"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats."

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Amber Hurdle

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

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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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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

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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 you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening."
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"Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen."
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"It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover."
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"Never doubt that you can change history. You already have."
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"Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."
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"All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations."
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"The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real."
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"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."
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"My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb."
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"Burning dinner is not incompetence but war."
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