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“one may scarcely find one man among seven women, so many women are there widowed whilst their husbands are alive’.”

— Lisa Hilton

“When a study was made a few years ago on runaway wives, what do you think was discovered to be the main reason wives…

— Dale Carnegie

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss…

— Samuel Richardson

“People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Society: Beware of missing persons.”

— Karl Kristian Flores

In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.

— Lynn Nottage

“The missing aren't missing, they're only departed”

— Trenton Lee Stewart

“SOME SAID that the men had been put on trains and sent far away, over the mountains, to the coldest part of the country.…

— Julie Otsuka

For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form…

— Marcel Proust

“Two homes on either side of the road saw Two women waving a good bye to their men One was a newly married husband…

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their…

— Dale Spender

“Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana