“You know how much money you have to have to tell a girl to shut the fuck up? I have 'Quiet, please' money at best. I’d have to take a loan out for 'Shut the fuck up.' 'Shut the fuck up–' That’s Jay Z money. And Beyoncé got 'No, you shut the fuck up' money.”— Dave Chappelle, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn’t share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.”— Nora Ephron, m.csmonitor.com
“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“Does anyone really know who they are marrying? People change. We do not know if the person we commit to will be the same person in ten years. We do not know who they will become. Will you be the same person in ten years: in health, body, money, interests, mental health?”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“What can we hope for in a marriage but to keep seeing things anew? With the people we love, it is so easy to stop seeing them at all.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“More than half the men expected their careers to take precedence over their wives’ careers, while most women expected egalitarian marriages. (Almost no women expected their own careers to come first.)”— Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, hbr.org
“I want all the single girls out there to know I don’t consider this an achievement.”— Meghan McCain, youtube.com
“And when you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, you…”— Tim Urban, amazon.com
“Buddha didn't get married because his wife would have said, ‘What, are you going to sit around like that all day?’”— Garry Shandling, esquire.com
“I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household, and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period.”— Pat Robertson, books.google.com
“a relationship isn't always 50/50. some days a person will struggle. you suck it up and pick up that 80/20 cus they need you. that's love.”— Slaughter ⚔️ , twitter.com