Marriage and Family
In 1965, she married William Meadows, an oil pipeline worker, with whom she had three children. Silkwood left her husband in 1972 and moved to Oklahoma City, where she briefly worked as a hospital clerk.
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Famous quotes containing the words marriage and, marriage and/or family:
“Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
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—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)