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Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.

— Mark McKinnon

I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed like a worthy goal.

— Diana Galbadon

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

— Mary Wesley

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

— Anne Lamott

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails.

— Stuart Rose

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

— Cathy Moriarty

When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, 'What were they thinking?' My grandparents were together for over 50 years.

— Justin Theroux

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?

— Howard Stringer

✗Opposing Perspectives

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

— Paul Newman

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

— Lauren Bacall