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
In India, women are respected the most. Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters. — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift! — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Spanish girls make wonderful wives. I've never had one so I know.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to… — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
“My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing;… — Nat C. Goodwin Copy Share Image
I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my… — Eskinder Nega 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
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
I wish I had a wife who could manage things for me. Men are blessed that way. They have wives to look… — Kirron Kher Copy Share Image
It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
With soldiers, their wives are so fundamental in their relationships, and yet there's this kind of other war happening back in the… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Since many government-paid propagandists insinuate that we (HDZ) are in fact agents of (the Yugoslav secret services) UDBA and KOS, and point… — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
“A final note on numbers: My research shows Ann Eliza was most likely Brigham's 52 of 55 wives. As far as I… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will… — Charles Lamb 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo. I tell them that all marriages are happy It's the living… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
“Who is that girl?” Loretta demanded one evening. “What girl?” Hunter felt heat rising up his neck and avoided meeting his wife’s… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
You shouldn't mess with people's wives. You shouldn't mess with people's family or religion, absolutely. — Kelvin Gastelum Copy Share Image
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image