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:
“My generation was ... haunted by Dr. Freud’s psychoanalysis, which ... had become the latest rage among the intelligentsia. I feel sorry for the modern mothers who have not one but a whole swarm of famous psychiatrists to confuse their thinking and spoil their fun by reminding them constantly that love is a dangerous business.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“I against my brother
I and my brother against our cousin
I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors
All of us against the foreigner.”
—Bedouin Proverb. Quoted by Bruce Chatwin in “From the Notebooks,” ch. 30, The Songlines (1987)
“If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)