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When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.