Silly Putty-like malleability institution [marriage], fact, reason sti — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace Marriage

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The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people… would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

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