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We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

— Raquel Welch

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.

— Aisha Tyler

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

— Lydia Millet

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.

— Adam Ross

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

— Kajol

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

— Alphonse Karr

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.

— Daphne Guinness

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

— John Leguizamo

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

— Mandy Moore

✗Opposing Perspectives

For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.

— Crystal Bowersox