Husband Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Husband Marriage Property Thinking
A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“in our present state of society woman possesses not; she is under possession,” referring to laws that barred married women from owning or inheriting… — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home,… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as… — Jane Austen Copy Share
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Sonny Von Bulow, who said to her husband Claus on their honeymoon, Stop needling me. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image