#wives

I love you once, I love you twice, I love you more than beans & rice. ↗

— Mike Delfino Desperate Housewives

#desperate-housewives #funeral-speech #goodbye #love #mike-delfino

One thing I really love being a man about Islam is; I can have so many wives and that would be considered as my rights. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#love #wives #love

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#wives #women #love

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#husbands #inequality #inferiority #marriage #matrimony

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later. ↗

— Robert Barnes

#because #comfortable #feel #had #i

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#arrive #conceived #eve #his #knew

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken? ↗

— Sitting Bull

#beat #broken #children #come #drunk

I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that. ↗

— Eileen Davidson

#believe #control #get #going #house

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#become #fish #frighten #him #hooked