Children Quote by Ian McEwan

“As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend,…

— Alexander Dumas

“I can say in all candor that husbands need wives, and if their wives are simply the “mothers of their children”, they’re likely to…

— Richard E. Greenberg

“For them, wives were never the better half. They were better and the half merely existed.”

— Anju Shylaja Kumar

“His wives had discovered early on what a poor or frightening prospect of a father he presented and they had protected themselves and got…

— Ian McEwan

“I hate married men ; they never make any sacrifice to the Arts, but are always thinking of their duty to their wives and…

— Anonymous

“Married! Not to retreat, but to be the mistress of a lord's domain; not to be safe in a convent, but to live as…

— Katherine Arden

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“would, by whatever means, make the multitudes of His dear children who are still living divided lives,”

— Andrew Murray

“Oh, yes, how remiss of me. I forgot that you can have an entire herd of wives.”

— Catherine Anderson

“And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”

— Louise Penny

“the wife who could be contented with but one half of her husband’s affections, had never deserved to engage the slightest share of them.”

— Walter Scott

“but even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women.”

— Isabel Allende