She accepted his hand in marriage.

She was desperate to get married.

She wants to wait until she's married.

She also declared that she would never marry again.

I'm sorry, but you can't marry Susan.

Very few women marry two men.

Legislation only reinforces a discriminatory situation which, unfortunately, is an established fact of life in Congolese society.

In our culture, you cannot be married to two women at the same time.

Why is it when you are poor, you want to get married to two women and have 10 children?

She is 19 years old at the beginning of the book.

A foreign woman who contracts matrimony to a Mozambican can acquire Mozambican citizenship.

Ms. Gaspard said she was glad to hear that a foreign woman who married a Lebanese national could retain her own nationality, and, conversely, that a Lebanese woman who married a foreign national could retain her Lebanese nationality.

And if particularly serious consequences are caused, the offenders shall be sentenced to between twelve and twenty years of imprisonment. These provisions free women from discrimination in terms of freedom of residence, movement even when married.

I asked her about that, and she said she meant that she doesn't want to be married, because, in her opinion, when you get married in Bhutan as a woman, your chances to live an independent life kind of end, and so she had no interest in that.

Well, when she had her second daughter, her mother in law told her son, I think you'd better get a second wife.

But to convert just to marry a man that is only Muslim by name isn't what Islam needs.

A lot of child brides, like Zahra, fall into marriage as barter in baad debt settling agreements.

So, the girl may get married at age 14, whereas boys get married with 16 years.

Today, according to Girls Not Brides, one in three girls in the developing world are married before they turn 18.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will only in the Lord.

She always knows where he is, and she doesn't have to be monogamous, because some of these females come up with multiple males attached.

Pahlavi never married and spent most of her time commuting between her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Paris, where her mother lives.

And as a woman who didn't get married until I was a lot older and I'm glad I waited and has no children, I look at these young people and I say, Your job is not to be perfect.

They prefer to invest in boys arguing that these shall secure the continuity of lineage, while girls (it goes) once married leave their own family lineages to adopt the patrilineal ones, for example.

The provisions for extinction of punishability in the cases where the victim marries the agent or a third party are revoked, as well as the crimes of seduction of a virgin woman, kidnapping of an honest woman, kidnapping of a minor with consent and adultery.

So of course, when you educate a girl, she tends to get married later on in life, she tends to have kids later on in life, she tends to have fewer kids, and those kids that she does have, she educates them in a more enlightened fashion.

South Korean women still drop out of the labor force when they marry or have children only 38 of families have two wage earners (half the OECD average).

As if the media circus surrounding her wasn't enough, the latest news is that Britney Spears will be considering converting to Islam in order to marry her Pakistan born paparazzo boyfriend, Adnan Ghalib.

Jacqueline Novogratz tells a moving story of an encounter in a Nairobi slum with Jane, a former prostitute, whose dreams of escaping poverty, of becoming a doctor and of getting married were fulfilled in an unexpected way.

Women (and men) are commonly forced into accepting the marriage partners chosen for them by their families, and widows can only marry the brother or cousin of the deceased husband.

However, recognizing that the Convention required an equal minimum marriage age for men and women, and that, in practice, women no longer married at 17, the State proposed to amend the Family Law.

Both men and women were granted the same right to enter into marriage. The legal age at which a girl would be allowed to marry was set at 16 and 19 for a boy, meanwhile the Government encouraged them to delay marriage until the girl attained the age of 20 and the boy 25.

In the case of mixed marriages, the husband's religious law prevailed if a Sunni man married a Christian or a Shia, the Sunni rules would apply a Muslim woman had to convert if she wanted to marry a Maronite Christian.

If a woman of the Niger marries an alien and cannot acquire his nationality, she may keep her original nationality.

Regarding widows' inheritance rights, she wondered what the Government was doing to end the discriminatory practice under which the widow was obliged to marry into her husband's family if she wished to benefit from her deceased husband's wealth.

In Zambia, for example, the legal minimum age for marriage is 21, yet 42 of girls are married by the age of 18 and nearly one in 12 by the time they reach 15.

Article 24 stipulates that the foreign nationality of a woman who marries an Indonesian man can be retained by declaration before an official or Indonesian representative up to two years following the marriage, except that this nationality would bestow dual citizenship.

Under article 109 and following articles of the Civil Code, a Guinean woman who marries a foreign man retains her nationality, unless she makes a declaration prior to her marriage expressly renouncing her nationality. This she may do even if she is a minor.

In additional are impacts of the social evils like alcoholism, gambling, prostitution, drug, extra marital affairs as well as mentality that women when getting married must give birth to a son to maintain the continuity of the family line and disagreement between mothers in law and daughters in law.

Furthermore, under most customs, the mother is granted custody of her sons until the age of puberty and her daughters until they marry however, quite often, mothers may, at best, have custody of the children only until they are seven years old. In the worst case scenario, custody is denied regardless of the child's age.

Global hopes to reduce child and maternal mortality, combat HIV AIDS, and achieve universal primary education are damaged by the fact that one in seven girls in the developing world and it is overwhelmingly girls who suffer this fate are married before they reach age 15.

The same regulation should also apply to an Indonesian woman who marries a foreigner (Article 8). The issue most often criticized regarding the law on nationality had been Article 9 which stipulated that the Indonesian citizenship of a husband automatically should pass on to his wife, unless she retained another nationality.

However, there remain customs and practices the result in inequality between men and women and thus fail to ensure women's rights, such as the custom of women have to follow their husband and a young girl has to obey her father, a young married woman has to obey her husband, the widow has to obey her son .

f) Article 29 stipulates that an Indonesian woman who marries a foreigner loses her Indonesian citizenship. Otherwise, if she intends to maintain her Indonesian citizenship, within two years after marriage, she may apply by written declaration to the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, or an Official or Representative of the Republic of Indonesia