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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

I did not know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It is a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words gay marriage are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.

I have never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

I love being in a relationship, but marriage is not for me.

My parents long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can not commit myself for such a long time.

My father was a Catholic, but my mother was not. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

It is very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it is a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.