Roles in Marriage
Nearly all religions recognize marriage, and many religions also promote views on appropriate gender roles within marriage.
Two notable views are Complementarianism and Christian Egalitarianism.
In Genesis 3, Adam names his wife Eve ("life") because she "was the mother of all living." (Genesis 3:20)
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Famous quotes containing the words roles and/or marriage:
“It was always the work that was the gyroscope in my life. I don’t know who could have lived with me. As an architect you’re absolutely devoured. A woman’s cast in a lot of roles and a man isn’t. I couldn’t be an architect and be a wife and mother.”
—Eleanore Kendall Pettersen (b. 1916)
“Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believes in its inconceivable purity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)