“American girls are terrific. American wives take too damn much territory.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.” — Roman Payne 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
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime.” — John Steinbeck 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
... 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
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
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace. — Louisa May Alcott 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
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
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
“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
“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
“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
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate… — Margaret Mead 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
“In fact, they, by being helpers to humanity, were actually able to guide humanity, not be guided, and they could control and… — Lucy Carter Copy Share Image
“You’d have a better time without me.” It wasn’t a direct refusal. She folded her arms beneath the swell of her lovely… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
“You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children's books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers.… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“How did so many women get to this unhappy place of not understanding how truly "simple" men are in their requirements and… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“There are no whores in Scaithe’s Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have always been many women who,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Hey!” The male voice sliced through the noise. Terri ignored him, determined to get back to the bar for her next order.… — Brandi Salazar Copy Share Image
“God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Now they were married, even in the eyes of her people. For forever. The thought panicked her as she pushed her dress… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
