But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote. ~By Lucy Stone ~
Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject? ~By Ernestine Rose ~
My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth. ~By Colleen McCullough ~
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it. ~By Billie Jean King ~
I have only one real hobby - my husband. ~By Florence Harding ~
I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband. ~By Brian Littrell ~
A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. ~By Barbara Cartland ~
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. ~By Matthew Modine ~
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. ~By Anne Spencer ~
I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband. ~By Judith Viorst ~
It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married. ~By Regina King ~
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. ~By Rita Rudner ~
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. ~By Richard Armour ~
I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead. ~By Gwen Stefani ~
I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage. ~By Kim Wilde ~
My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is. ~By Michael Lewis ~
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. ~By Vera Brittain ~
Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason. ~By Indra Devi ~
It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this. ~By Dorothy Stratten ~
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache. ~By Samuel Richardson ~
From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other. ~By Ernestine Rose ~
Chazz Palminteri is just the ultimate screen husband. ~By Linda Fiorentino ~
My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly. ~By Erika Slezak ~
Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in. ~By Tina Fey ~
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go. ~By Sharon Stone ~
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. ~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble. ~By Imelda Marcos ~
Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door. ~By Indra Devi ~
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. ~By Chanakya ~
A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed. ~By Lou Costello ~
But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it. ~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry. ~By Faith Ford ~
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home. ~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband. ~By Claudia Johnson ~
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? ~By Mary Astell ~
I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand? ~By Raquel Welch ~
I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. ~By Laura Bush ~
I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance. ~By June Carter Cash ~
If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too. ~By Simone Signoret ~
Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. ~By Cher ~
Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear. ~By Andrei A. Gromyko ~
I'm just a husband waltzing in the background. ~By Bruce Greenwood ~
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. ~By Elsa Maxwell ~
My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing. ~By Gwen Stefani ~
Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband. ~By Patricia Heaton ~
Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me. ~By Pierre Salinger ~
I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go. ~By Pia Zadora ~
I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement. ~By Anna Harrison ~
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost. ~By Lucy Stone ~
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. ~By H. L. Mencken ~
I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on. ~By Jami Gertz ~
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky. ~By Judith Rossner ~
But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted. ~By Laura Bush ~
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. ~By Christopher Hampton ~
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. ~By George Savile ~
I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too. ~By Anthony Weiner ~
Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends. ~By Holly Hunter ~
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. ~By Jean Giraudoux ~
The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love. ~By Frank Langella ~
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. ~By Anita Diament ~
My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl. ~By Judi Dench ~
First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes. ~By Kim Mathers ~
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. ~By Mary Wesley ~
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. ~By Sarah Brady ~
The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying. ~By Kelly Preston ~
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. ~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun. ~By Patricia Heaton ~
I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men. ~By Janet Street-Porter ~
I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page. ~By Sue Grafton ~
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him. ~By Donald Cargill ~
I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows. ~By Marlo Thomas ~
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. ~By Amy Levy ~
I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then. ~By Mariel Hemingway ~
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. ~By Bette Davis ~
I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around. ~By Julia Barr ~
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. ~By Harpo Marx ~
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ~By George Byron ~
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. ~By Jack Kingston ~
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ~By Marie Antoinette ~
My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband. ~By John Conyers ~
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go. ~By Samuel Richardson ~
I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way. ~By Priscilla Presley ~
No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner. ~By Thomas R. Dewar ~
No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other. ~By George Weinberg ~
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ~By Rita Rudner ~
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting. ~By Meryl Streep ~
That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute. ~By Mother Jones ~
I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too. ~By Honor Blackman ~
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. ~By Franklin P. Jones ~
My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love. ~By Vivien Leigh ~
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. ~By Gerald Brenan ~
I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone. ~By Faith Hill ~
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. ~By H. L. Mencken ~
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). ~By James Thurber ~
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. ~By Anna Quindlen ~
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband. ~By Billie Burke ~
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. ~By Marilyn Monroe ~
I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband. ~By Corazon Aquino ~
I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role. ~By Deborah Cox ~
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. ~By Geoffrey Chaucer ~
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