I don’t have that ‘OMG, I gotta get married’ thing! If it happens, it happens, but it’s never been like, ‘Oooo, I need to do that!’
When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there’s less and less time for songwriting.
That’s one thing I don’t think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that’s exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?
It’s too late for me to get married before I’m famous. You never know people’s intentions.
It’s never too early to get married now.
I didn’t want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn’t want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.
To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one’s life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.
When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That’s all we thought about. It didn’t occur to us to get married and have babies.
We need to send a powerful message to the world in a unified voice: that we can fight for social justice for everyone, everywhere, and change the world, not just get married. We can continue to build our communities and address the root causes of queer and trans poverty and deaths.
The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.
I don’t know if I want to get married again.
Neha and I were part of a very small, tightly-knit group of close friends. Others in the group like Yuvraj Singh and Gaurav Chopra got married. That left only two of us. So we decided to get married.
I will not even tell my daughter to get married if she does not find her life partner. I would rather push her for education and financial independence.
I think I was probably, at one point, a very needy friend, and as you grow up and you have your own life and get married or not and have kids or not, and life goes, and it grows, and you grow with it, and – I think I’m a better friend now.
If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There’s plenty of time for that after marriage.
Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can’t they get married in February?
My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don’t want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.
I’ve always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy – and I had not stopped to become a mommy.
I’m terrified to get married. I’m not getting married till my gay friends can.
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – ‘I’m going to get married at this age; I’m going to have a kid at this age’ – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don’t want my life to be based on that.
You don’t have to get married and have a family, like a lot of women try, to live the American Dream. There’s nothing wrong if you’re in your 40s and don’t have kids and are president of your own company.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
I don’t really want to get married. I’ve got my career, my friends – my life is very, very full. It’s nice to go out to dinner with a man and have fun, but I wouldn’t rush into anything because I don’t think it’s right to bring another man into the house with my four children.
Also, I thought the main reason people get married is to have children. And since having kids had never been of interest to me, I didn’t think marriage was necessary.
What I like about music is that you make a song, you’ve got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life – they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It’s in their world, and it takes on its own life.
If I found the right guy, I think I would get married. Maybe. I just feel like it’s just a contract. Why sign any more contracts, really?
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
I’m probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don’t have the balls that Romeo did.
I hope I don’t get too old before I can get married.
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn’t have the wonderful children I have if I didn’t get married.
I don’t think anybody should get married before they’re 30. You’re too young to really know yourself.
What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it’s that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can’t wait too long. It’s the single simplest measure to predict divorce.
It seemed like I woke up one morning and had an epiphany. I thought, ‘I cannot do this. I do not want to get married. And I’m not going to law school – it just doesn’t excite me. I’m not wasting anybody’s money. I’m going to move to New York.’
Losing Jane was tragic and I thought I’d never get married again, or have more children, or would even ever want to.
I know plenty of people my age that will never get married because they genuinely believe the false cultural meme that marriage has sadly become. There’s only one problem. It’s completely untrue.
I’m not eloping. When I get married, everyone will know.
Krushna and I never wanted to get married as we were very happy living together. But one fine day, Krushna got up and proposed to me for marriage. I didn’t take him seriously at all.
As people get older, they get married, have kids. I’m not married. I don’t have kids, so I’m able to focus 100 percent on this.
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
Maybe it’s because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I’m frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don’t need reassurance.
Marriage is a big deal, but who’s to say I’m not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it’s like for a minute?
I just do not understand all of these guys that get married and then want to go spend all of their time with their buddies.
I don’t think I would get married again; I don’t know if I’m a very good candidate because of all the touring I do.
I did not get married for these trolls. My husband is a good man and I find him good-looking, maybe you don’t. I don’t care.
You know what a wifey means? It’s like your other half. Like when you get married, like, that’s your wife!
I’m never going to get married again. Three strikes, you’re out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don’t I? I think you only get three.
It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I’m very glad I did it.
We were wearing jeans and t-shirts, and we just decided to drive to the courthouse and get married. We went to Arby’s and had lunch – that’s always been like one of my favorite places – so we decided to celebrate our holy matrimony with some roast beef.
I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father.
One of the things I always tell people when they’re going to get married is, in order to have a lasting relationship, there are a couple of things you need to discuss. One is finance, obviously. Then there’s religion, politics, kids, how you discipline kids, and how many kids you want to have.
When you’re gonna get married, it’s all about your heart.
Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don’t understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?
Gay and lesbian people want to love and be loved. Some of us want to get married. Some want to have and build families. We want our kids to have their lives be a little bit better than what we’ve had.
I believe in the institution of marriage. I want to get married and start a family.
There’s a lot to be said about stability. So many people don’t get married nowadays – you see it less and less – but it’s a shame if you don’t ever have that experience of sharing something with someone else. It’s a real shame.
I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.
