"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end"
About this Quote
The intent is practical masquerading as witty: privacy is not the opposite of intimacy, it’s what keeps intimacy from curdling into constant togetherness. Bathrooms are where the mythology of romance goes to die - where you’re confronted with noise, mess, grooming rituals, and the fact that everyone is, unavoidably, a mammal. By naming the bathroom, she sidesteps the grand moral debates and points at the tiny frictions that actually erode relationships: the interruptions, the lack of solitude, the sense that your partner has become your roommate with no closed doors.
The subtext is also quietly feminist and modern: each person gets a space that belongs to them, no negotiation required. Coming from a celebrity whose marriage has been tabloid property, it doubles as a boundary-setting parable. In a culture that sells “sharing everything” as romantic virtue, she’s suggesting the opposite: the happiest couples don’t merge; they coexist with well-placed walls and a lock.
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| Topic | Husband & Wife |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Zeta-Jones, Catherine. (2026, January 15). For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/for-marriage-to-be-a-success-every-woman-and-142332/
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Zeta-Jones, Catherine. "For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/for-marriage-to-be-a-success-every-woman-and-142332/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/for-marriage-to-be-a-success-every-woman-and-142332/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.







