Friendship Quote by Sarah Waters

“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

“And of course there was no help for it, except recalling bits of conversations she had overheard from time to time about marriage. That’s…

— Jane Smiley

“But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband,…

— Oscar Wilde

“She had effaced herself, when he first knew her; she had made herself small, pretending there was less of her than there really was.…

— Henry James

“married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like…

— Tracy Chevalier

“Was it so very obvious that I was not married? Of course it was. For one thing, I had no husband with me, looking…

— Tracy Chevalier

“I couldn't meet a girl without saying to myself, What kind of wife would she make?”

— Jack Kerouac

“She said, “Aye, they’re getting for him everything the heart of man could desire, saving the one thing.” I asked, “What’s that?” She said,…

— Nevil Shute

“She was looking for a husband, partly because she was afraid no one might want her, partly because she couldn't decide what to do…

— A.S. Byatt

“He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night.”

— Eudora Welty

“And yes, she had a laminated list of her top ten sexiest men who she apparently would always be allowed to sleep with even…

— Natasha Boyd

“And it wasn't that you couldn't be friends with a married woman, but you weren't friends in the same way, she didn't have the…

— Curtis Sittenfeld