#wives

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. ↗

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #environment #had #high #males

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives. ↗

— Keith Henson

#children #had #over #wives #women

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#before #bodies #came #castle #confronted

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you. ↗

— Kate Hudson

#beautiful thing #could #ever #ex-wives #eyes

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

— Jane Austen

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And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#children #compound #died #end #far

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time. ↗

— Sarah Brightman

#i #person #sort #time #wife

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ↗

— George Byron

#butler #daughters #grow #husbands #off

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference. ↗

— James Caan

#between #difference #five #four #i

When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition. ↗

— Marcia Cross

#age #desperate #ends #happy #housewives