Arranged Marriage Quotes

• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  Salma Hayek

  Baby, Grandmother, Medicine

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• What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.

  Terrence Rafferty

  Knowledge, Romantic Love, Finding Yourself

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• I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Running, Blow, My Family

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

  Fay Weldon

  Marriage, Love Is, Way

  Fay Weldon (2007). “The spa decameron”

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• Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Law, Your Future, Bounds

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Prayer, Long

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• It was an arranged marriage, put together by drugs and alcohol.

  Tom Papa

  Drinking, Alcohol, Drug

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• You get to decide how you're going to look and what you're going to be when you grow up and when people learned that my parents actually had an arranged marriage people thought that was the most horrific thing on earth. I mean how could anybody allow their marriage of all things to be prescribed by somebody else?

  Sheena Iyengar

  Growing Up, Mean, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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• There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.

  Archie Panjabi

  Mother, Mean, Introducing

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• Fine. Sit around being inconsiderate asses…and you wonder why none of you are married. (Zarina) (Sway cleared his throat meaningfully.) Oh, shush. You don’t count. You had an arranged marriage. These losers can’t get a girl for more than three and half minutes it takes them to embarrass themselves with their feeble gropings that always disappoint. (Zarina)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Three, Half

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• To say that you have to carry to term and look after a child for the rest of your life is to say I force you, legally, to love someone. It's like saying, you know, you have to go and love another - you have to go - you know, you have to go marry someone. It's like an arranged marriage.

  Caitlin Moran

  Children, And Love, Looks

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of homosexuals, fatwas, honor killings, suicide bombings, arranged marriages to minors, human sacrifice, burning witches, and systematic sex with children, I have a few little quibbles. And I forgot blowing up girl schools in Afghanistan.

  Bill Maher

  Girl, Suicide, Hurt

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