Marge Piercy Quotes

I don't need to be married, but I feel married.

We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I don't really believe that you need to be married to someone to be their life partner.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.

My husband is my buddy; he's my lover. We share lots of things.

I don't know if I believe in marriage - I believe in love.

Marriage is an indissoluble state of life wherein a man and a woman agree to give each other power over their bodies for the begetting, birth, and upbringing of offspring.

I believe that two people can meet and enrich each other's lives. I'd say that about my parents. But I think it is harder and harder to commit to only one person in a lifetime.

With Hef it was a relationship. It's the world that made a big thing out of it.

I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Marriage is wonderful.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

I like spending time with my husband.

Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.