Husbands Quote by Melanie Benjamin

“Who was this woman before me, her face imprinted with the expectations of others? I was Mom. I was Wife. I was Tragedy. I…

— Melanie Benjamin

“Women had always existed: they had lived, a species to themselves, with the demons. But they had wanted playmates: and together they had made…

— Clive Barker

“the weird possibility of marriage loomed. It loomed, in part, because there weren’t very many appealing models of what other kinds of female life…

— Rebecca Traister

“What kind of a modern woman was she, if she didn’t reach for her own dream? Maybe it was time to sweep the man…

— Tessa Dare

“In days when men were men (And you should have seen us then)”

— Aristophanes

“And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him:…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“But not we men. We weren't fit to be told. For so you women think, and hug your mysteries, getting your backs on us…

— Colleen McCullough

“If our past had been what we wanted it to be, we wouldn't be the women we are proud to be today.”

— Jackie Viramontez

“...and I wonder if my lineage is one of women shrinking, making space for the entrance of men into their lives, not knowing how…

— Lily Myers

“He was of that generation of men who simply accepted the mystery of womanhood, who made no effort to try to understand their wives,…

— Andrew Porter

“become the physical embodiment of your soul so that you discover the woman you were always meant to be.”

— Christiane Northrup

“In fact, you could almost hold that no man is perfect until he meets the right woman.”

— Karen Hawkins