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I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women. -- Sakshi Tanwar
Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages. -- Ranbir Kapoor
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents. -- Salman Rushdie
Yes, many people in rural parts of India are very orthodox and have arranged marriages. But I won't - I want to fall madly in love with someone and be whisked off my feet. -- Shilpa Shetty
Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections. -- Tina Brown
When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of homosexuals, fatwas, honor killings, suicide bombings, arranged marriages to minors, human sacrifice, burning witches, and systematic sex with children, I have a few little quibbles. And I forgot blowing up girl schools in Afghanistan. -- Bill Maher
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. -- Louis Leakey
A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process. -- Jason Flemyng
Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help. -- Jemima Khan
There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.' -- Archie Panjabi
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage. -- Salma Hayek
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. -- Indra Nooyi
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones. -- Leo Tolstoy
Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them. -- Siddharth Katragadda

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