"It is nice to see a love story work out— but for me, the applause line isn’t that I married him, but that five years after meeting in Bali, we are actually still happy together…. marriage won’t make you happy if you’re not already happy. You have to be completely yourself first…be as strong an individual as you can be."
— Elizabeth Gilbert in an interview with Glamour Magazine, January 2009 issue, page 66