Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by…

— Jane Austen

“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one…

— T.A. Grey

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“Did all women married to well-known men struggle for recognition?”

— Nancy Horan

“Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Still, she would not have married a man she knew full well did not love her, had there seemed any possible hope of a…

— Julie Klassen

“Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. ”

— khaled hosseini

“Why was it that when she was aching for a man, everyone was married, but when she was giving them up, so many men…

— Shannon Hale

“Perhaps, in spite of all she had heard about the ideal of a perfect marriage, there was no such thing. Perhaps every marriage was…

— Lisa Kleypas

“So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery.”

— Howard Jacobson

“She’d wanted love, a husband and children, a home filled with laughter and security, the things she’d never had as a child. She’d stopped…

— Linda Howard