Marriage and Family Life
See also: Catholic Church and womenThe teachings of the Church have also been used to "establish the status of women under the law". There has been some debate as to whether the Church has improved the status of women or hindered their progress.
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Famous quotes containing the words family life, marriage and, marriage, family and/or life:
“Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“... a family I know ... bought an acre in the country on which to build a house. For many years, while they lacked the money to build, they visited the site regularly and picnicked on a knoll, the site’s most attractive feature. They liked so much to visualize themselves as always there, that when they finally built they put the house on the knoll. But then the knoll was gone. Somehow they had not realized they would destroy it and lose it by supplanting it with themselves.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“Their rebukes have never made me angry, because I have always wondered why they did not rebuke me more. They should have. Their friendly praise has been one of the sweetest, most warming things in my life in the theater. I do go on the stage unafraid of them and with love in my heart for them.”
—Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865–1932)