Marriage
Pamela moved to Manhattan in the 1970s and has resided there for at least part of the year ever since. In 1982, she married Dr. Elliott Kuritzky, a resident in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Kuritzky graduated Magna Cum Laude from UCLA, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa in the UCLA School of Medicine Dr. Kuritzky died of cancer at age 29 at Mt. Sinai Hospital on August 15, 1983, just a year after wedding Pamela Stafford. Due to the mishandling of his body, Pamela sued Riverside Chapel, a New York City funeral home, for $10 million.
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Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you’ve made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors—neutral gray.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment ... [ellipsis in source]”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)