I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants. — Randall Wright Copy Share Image
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise. — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
“Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
“I know the way o' wives; they set one on to abuse their husbands, and then they turn round on one and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night… — Ihara Saikaku 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
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
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
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
“Not only should the conventional "rules" of marriage not apply necessarily to individual wives, but the euphoria of Phase One is old… — Susan Shapiro Barash 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
If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from… — Don Rickles 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
“On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business),… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“But behind each player stood a line of ghosts unable to win. Eve. Ashputtel. Marilyn Monroe. Rapunzel slashing wildly at her hair.… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?” “Because I love you. Because I love you so much I’m willing to… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
“Nim looked aghast. “Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No—it’s Number Seven of the wives.… — Colleen Chen Copy Share Image
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“From "Not For Ourselves Alone:" In Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s time: Women were barred by custom from the pulpit and professions Those who… — ken burns Copy Share Image