Death Quote by Orson Scott Card

“And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride…

— E.M. Forster

“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have. They”

— Rebecca Traister

“Maybe that was true of marriage everywhere. Between times, in their own living rooms, the men seemed to be resting for the next round…

— Anna Quindlen

“Unlike men writers who marry, most will not have the societal equivalent of a wife-- nor (in a society hostile to growing life) anyone…

— Tillie Olsen

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

— Anju Shylaja Kumar

“Husbands were to be avoided in the pre-thirty years. There was always time for marriage and children; was the common refrain. You couldn’t give…

— Kristin Hannah

“... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.”

— Jonathan Swift

“A woman isn’t just married to her husband, but to his whole family”

— Chanrithy Him

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

“A man was not made to live alone. Had it not been for Mhudi, I don’t think you would have known me at all.…

— Sol T. Plaatje

“Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. The husbands lived two hours away...”

— Charles Frazier

“She was old to know that marriages were like children. They had lives of their own and didn't necessarily act the way you thought…

— Rebecca Flowers