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 marriage, family and/or life:
“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
“In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“We have got to know what both life and death are, before we can begin to live after our own fashion. Let us be learning our a-b- c’s as soon as possible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)