Dorothy Allison Quotes

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

You can't know about marriage until you try it.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

Marriage is hard work, period.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

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

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

We don’t want to abolish marriage, but we want marriage to be founded on what it was made for, mutual love and respect, and when there is none left or when it vanishes, so shall the marriage vanish. In short, love and respect shall be the only bonds that keep man and wife together, and when they are broken so shall the marriage end.

Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

I think marriage can sometimes turn things into a business. It stops being about feelings.

I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it.