Cases Quote by Douglass North

Wife: a former sweetheart.

— H. L. Mencken

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising…

— Natalie Babbitt

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

— Freya Stark

My husband is an editor, and in fact he was the first person who hired me as an assistant editor. Then we fell in…

— Kari Skogland

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write…

— Isabel Allende

She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.

— Anonymous

I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else…

— Frederick Sanger

“Yet early on in the marriage I found myself -- despite all my self-promises -- drifting into the role of wife: focusing on the…

— Erica Jong

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

— Anne Heche

I think there's a part of us that would like to use the fact that we're married, but you don't want the idea that…

— John Krasinski

WIFE, A great comfort during her husband's troubles -- those, that as a bachelor, he would never have had;

— Nikhil Saluja

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, 'Yeah, you're very married.' She runs the household. I refer to her as 'the greatest director…

— Max Greenfield