“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.” 
― Heinrich Heine

“you can't be value free when it comes to marriage” 
― Al Gore

“I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.” 
― George Eliot

“I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.” 
― Sylvia Plath

“War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.” 
― Margaret Mitchell

“Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find that their wives do have sense?" "Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.” 
― Margaret Mitchell

“She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing.” 
― Rainbow Rowell

“Make my happiness--I will make yours.” 
― Charlotte Brontë