Famous Cousin Marriages
Famous cousin marriages in the United States include Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Einstein, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
In Latin America, famous figures who married their cousin include prominent author and 2010 Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, and former Peruvian beauty queen Marina Mora.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous, cousin and/or marriages:
“Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do with my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton.”
—Richard Burton (1925–1984)
“The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)
“Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families would not survive without two incomes, partly because they are not at all sure their marriages will last. The day of the husband as permanent meal-ticket is over, a fact most women recognize, however they feel about “women’s liberation.””
—Robert Neelly Bellah (20th century)