I had reconciled myself to a life without marriage or children for the sake of my career. And then my brothers got married. I real...ized I didn't even have a home, that in the future I couldn't do politics when I had to ask permission from their wives as to whether I could use the dining room or the telephone. I couldn't rent a home because a woman living on her own can be suspected of all kinds of scandalous associations. So keeping in mind that many people in Pakistan looked to me, I decided to make a personal sacrifice in what I thought would be, more or less, a loveless marriage, a marriage of convenience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love... Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage--but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his frie...nds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most ...enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, &c. prove it abundantly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As if, as if, as if the disparate halves Of things were waiting in a betrothal known... To none, awaiting espousal to the sound Of right joining, a music of ideas, the burning And breeding and bearing birth of harmony, The final relation, the marriage of the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the nex...t; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Som...e marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the writer is communicating his experience with perfect fullness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across ...the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century--sex and paranoia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell:... 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »