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Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.

We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.

I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.