Accountability Quote by Jane Austen

“A wife of temperish temperament should be a temperate better-half.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“In psychological terms, he was neurotic and she was uncommonly sane. His inevitable eruptions would not threaten the marriage, because she was the center…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the change was…

— Toni Morrison

“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

— George Eliot

“Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety,…

— Jean Plaidy

“She’s a goddess, which I can prove by citing her incredible temper and her knack for causing bodily harm to men with irrational enthusiasm.”

— S. Hart

“whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her”

— Molly Ringwald

“I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Her husband, like her children, was a person who often annoyed her but whom she loved very deeply.”

— Coral Lansbury

“A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the…

— Stephen King

“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division of existence.…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“That she made a point to eat only the gristliest chicken bits, the burned biscuits, the mealiest potatoes, while she complained that his children…

— Paul Harding