More From Toni Morrison
- "Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."
- "Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
- "All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
More In Marriage
- "My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn’t when I started."― Andrew Sullivan
- "With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits."― Eleanor Holmes Norton
- "I don’t know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage."― Jeff Bridges