First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers. — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Copy Share Image
“For them, wives were never the better half. They were better and the half merely existed.” — Anju Shylaja Kumar Copy Share Image
Fans always ask me if I'll marry them so I'm going to have a lot of wives. — One Direction Copy Share Image
There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives. — Charlotte Whitton Copy Share Image
In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today. — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to… — Marta Kristen Copy Share Image
In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives… — George Sand Copy Share Image
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Voilet had told me about wives. In cultures where marriage was practiced, he had said, a woman was allowed to choose the… — Dave Duncan Copy Share Image
“She replied that it was precisely men well versed in religion who beat their wives. The precepts of religion permitted such punishment.… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields,… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were… — T. Coraghessan Boyle Copy Share Image
Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs a wife; even wives need wives. Wives tend, they hover. Their ears are twin sensitive instruments, satellites picking up the… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“In the book of Alma is a story that has fascinated e since I first read it. it is about a very… — Marjorie Pay Hinckley Copy Share Image
“In fact that is why the lives of most women are so vaguely unsatisfactory. They are always doing secondary and menial things… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand her. I treat her kindly, yet she still shakes with fear at the thought of being one with me.… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“These women accept their beatings with a simplicity worthy of all praise, and far from considering themselves insulted, admire the strength and… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Hers was the timeless tale of the imbalance of power between the sexes, at least in traditional marriages. She was typical of… — Bella Stumbo Copy Share Image
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Peninsula Freeway, and another off Penzance Beach Road, which wound in a dizzying climb high above sea level. She slowed for an… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
