Ambition Quote by Amanda Foreman

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

— Bertrand Russell

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities -…

— Aristotle

A good wife means so much.

— Marlon Vera

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts…

— Lemuel K Washburn

Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday was a…

— Kahlil Gibran

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in…

— Henry Adams

“A successful marriage needs much more than, love, care, and feelings. A woman can choose to be totally submissive in a marriage, like in…

— Sanjeev Himachali

People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance;…

— Christabel Pankhurst

“Besides, the woman who strengthens her body and exercises her mind will, by managing her family and practising various virtues, become the friend, and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Women have married because it was necessary, in order to survive economically, in order to have children who would not suffer economic deprivation or…

— Adrienne Rich