Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert
Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Te

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that its actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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I used to say, Man, I think Id be a really good dad. Ill be a great provider. Im funny Ill go on trips with them – Ill do all sorts of stuff. But the momming? Im not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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I dont think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Its not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didnt have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didnt have much to do with reality. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you cant deny is the penalty of marriage. – Queen Victoria

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just dont know, but they do. – Earl Warren

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My parents separated when I was four. It wasnt the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you cant have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. – Sophie Ellis Bextor

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I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybodys civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights. – Alan Autry

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