Forced Marriage Quotes

“Culture is no excuse for abuse”
― Davinder Kaur, FORCED TO MARRY HIM: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It

“Yes, death is far less dire to contemplate
Than a forced marriage to an unloved mate”
― Richard Wilbur, The School for Husbands

“In the mirror, Mariam had her first glimpse of Rasheed: the big, square, ruddy face; the crooked nose; the flushed cheeks that gave the impression of sly cheerfulness; the watery, bloodshot eyes; the crowded teeth, the front two pushed together like a gables roof; the impossible low hairline, barely two fingers widths above the bushy eyebrows; the wall of thick, coarse, salt-and-pepper hair.
Their gazes met briefly in the glass and slid away.
This is the face of my husband, Mariam thought.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Children need to be taught about forced marriage and how an arranged wedding can be a forced marriage if either party doesn't freely consent to it.”
― Davinder Kaur, FORCED TO MARRY HIM: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It

“…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

“On the note of Environment which is a big issue at the moment, I personally think, in order to be able to look after it, you need to look after your body, first. As they say, if you can't look after yourself, you will not be able to look after anything else."
By Teren Hanz, Author MAYA”
― Teren Hanz, Maya

“don’t ask if you’re being forced into marriage

by your family

or even by the man you’re marrying

ask if you’re forcing yourself

ask your conscience if you’re being pressured by social media

if the pestering questions by relatives has gotten to you now

if seeing couples made you jealous

&made you believe that the way your life is wasn’t good enough



ask yourself if you wanna marry him just so you can fuck him senseless

salon hair ruined

wedding flowers crumpled beneath salty bodies

you had both waited too long

tried so hard to not bring yourselves to dark alleyways

&do sinful things to one another”
― Malab, The Komorébi, The Breast Mountains Of All Time

“She learned to make it easier for herself, to evade pain by preparing her body to receive him. She learned to acquire some control so she was not always at his mercy, to delay and postpone, and to feign enjoyment. She said no when she could, and fought back when he rebuked her, returning vicious abuse to his hectoring threats. It was a nightmare she could not tell anyone about.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Theft

“I never acknowledged that love. Neither did I acknowledge the massive effect her existence had on mine, until I pushed her away. Only when I lost her shy smiles did I realize their importance.”
― Noyar Cecil, Cursed by Denial : A Dark Second-Chance Forced Marriage Romance