Marriage Quote by Susanna Sonnenberg

“Another and less elevated lesson she had learned in married life was that if she wheedled long enough and discreetly enough, she quite often…

— Winston Graham

“Women are delicate creatures at the best of times moved by desires unknown to the men who place trust in them.”

— Melvin Musera

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“That women talked back in a time when they were increasingly expected to be submissive is a point to which we shall return.”

— Anne L. Barstow

“What he didn’t do was control me, or try to mold me into a little wife, some old-fashioned, muted version of who I was.…

— Jane Green

“I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on…

— Hermann Hesse

“He had never taken a woman like Bride. One who wasn't biting and clawing at him as she demanded he please her. Something inside…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“She preferred her men less intense and less—well, just less. What she was looking for was control. This man wasn’t tame enough for her…

— Destiny Booze

“She has had no role in my life except to keep me sane, fed, housed, amused, and protected from unwanted telephone calls, also to…

— Wallace Stegner

“Unlike women, men weren’t emotional creatures who easily revealed their every intimate thought and sentiment like women did.”

— E.N. Joy

“Let’s save our well-meaning advice, suggestions, and opinions and instead focus on loving the woman in front of us. Let’s deliberately dissolve the judgment…

— Christy Wright

“Was this what marriage was, the slow process of getting to know another individual far better than was advisable? Sometimes [his] gestures and inflections…

— Curtis Sittenfeld