#husbands

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#excess #faults #husbands #often #their

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

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

— William Shakespeare

#husbands #maids #nothing #them #want

Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. ↗

— Mary Calderone

#going #grandchildren #husbands #just #other

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands. ↗

— Cher

#friends #husbands #i #still

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the way God had arranged Creation, sanctified in the words of the Apostle. ... Under the common law of England at the accession of King James I, no female had any rights at all (if some were allowed by custom). As an unmarried woman her rights were swallowed up in her father's, and she was his to dispose of in marriage at will. Once she was married her property became absolutely that of her husband. What of those who did not marry? Common law met that problem blandly by not recognizing it. In the words of The Lawes Resolutions [the leading 17th century compendium on women's legal status]: 'All of them are understood either married or to be married.' In 1603 England, in short, still lived in a world governed by feudal law, where a wife passed from the guardianship of her father to her husband; her husband also stood in relation to her as a feudal lord. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#common-law #empowerment #fathers #feminism #feudalism

When I focus on the way "men" or "husbands" generally behave, I start to lump Jamie along with half of humanity. I find myself feeling angry or annoyed with Jamie for things he hasn't even done. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#marriage #experience

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. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#end #fall #furniture #generally #had

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. ↗

— Jane Austen

#husbands #opposition #understand #vain #will

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#first #husbands #i #i always #kinda