#husbands

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#families #great #husbands #impulse #particularly

Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever? Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars. You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you? ↗

— Ouida

#love #marriage #men #wives #women

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#heart #husbands #make #often #wife

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ↗

— Washington Irving

#become #brothers #child #desert #endures

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court? ↗

— Dan Savage

#court #divorce #dream #get #go

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#because #diverted #husbands #jealous #other

A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#complaint #emotion #energy #husbands #job

Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#frankly #husbands #instead #many #priorities

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#over #power #profound #seem #their

I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#away #crying #fine #girlfriends #happy