“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children
“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers
“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could
“I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me
“Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out
“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be
“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together
“What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do this
“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculable
“Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family
“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day