#husband

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#enough #first #get #had #had enough

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#excess #faults #husbands #often #their

When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life. ↗

— Nancy O'Dell

#ages #albums #boxes #first #full

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#even #few #galling #government #husbands

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#could #feel #husband #i #inferior

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #case #comic #computer #five

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. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#children #create #going #had #him

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#knives #like #lives #look #poets

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#children #decision #discipline #equal #give

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#husbands #maids #nothing #them #want