Helen Rowland

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#begun #decide #divorce #get #last

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#chase #come #feet #him #ignore

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#happy #her #him #little #lot

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#after #been #extracted #husband #left

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#blind faith #chicken #faith #flavor #hash

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#becomes #dull #her #him #his

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#another woman #fool #her #him #make

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#grain #her #into #man #puts

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#full #heart #little #man #may