"A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine."

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Source : Ursula Hegi (2012). “Intrusions”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

Ursula Hegi

#Strong Quotes #Happy Marriage Quotes #Routine Quotes

“You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.”

Source : "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.
“But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.”
“The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.”
“Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.”
“I'm not very firey, but when I go, I go. I don't shout, I just get upset.”
“It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit.”
“There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.”

Source : "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.
“I wear black while suckers wear pink.”

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