wives

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
d15079c	To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.	entrapment husbands marriage matrimony wives	Simone de Beauvoir
b05116d	A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...	wives	Stephen King
63f3d22	"It was all Mrs. Bumble. She do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room. That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction." If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass -- a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience -- by experience." --	funny husbands law marriage matrimony responsibility wives woman	Charles Dickens
0b8b218	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.	wives women	Elizabeth Gilbert
5d626d0	"Why?" she whispered. "Why should I dance with you?" "Because I love you. Because I love you so much I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make it go differently this time."... "Because we should be a married couple, because I never wanted to not be married to you. Because all these men out here dancing with their wives can't possibly love them as much as I love you. Because for me, there is only one woman, and I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're it."	husband husbands love wife wives	Erin McCarthy
4d91af8	God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Where you ought to be ahead of your wife in virtue, you collapse under the onset of lechery. ... Complaints are always being made about men's lechery, yet wives do not dare to find fault with their husbands for it. Male lechery is so brazen and so habitual that it is now sanctioned [= permitted], to the extent that men tell their wives that lechery and adultery are legitimate for men but not for women.	clichés double-standards fidelity gender hypocrisy marriage men misogyny morality sexuality social-norms stereotypes wives women	Augustine of Hippo
a000118	"Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes."	circumspection husbands marriage married-life separation wives	John le Carré
50acdd6	I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.	humor me-and-miss-mandible short-story wives	Donald Barthelme
5cd2415	[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.	husbands inequality inferiority marriage matrimony perception wives	Wallace Stegner
4df1ecb	Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I was his instrument, his animal. Nothing more. How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness. I was just one more of those women who clamp their mouths shut and wave the flag as their nation rolls off to conquer another in war. Guilty or innocent, they have everything to lose. They are what there is to lose. A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.	wife wife-and-husband wives women women-s-roles	Barbara Kingsolver
18b593e	She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.	counsel wives	Robert Ludlum
baf0617	My father always says, choosing a wife is like putting your hand into a bag full of writhing creatures, with one eel to six snakes. What are the chances you will pull out the eel?	marriage-advice thomas-more wives women	Hilary Mantel

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

entrapment husbands marriage matrimony wives

Simone de Beauvoir

b05116d

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...

wives

Stephen King

63f3d22

"It was all Mrs. Bumble. She do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room. That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction." If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass -- a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience -- by experience." --

funny husbands law marriage matrimony responsibility wives woman

Charles Dickens

0b8b218

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.

wives women

Elizabeth Gilbert

5d626d0

"Why?" she whispered. "Why should I dance with you?" "Because I love you. Because I love you so much I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make it go differently this time."... "Because we should be a married couple, because I never wanted to not be married to you. Because all these men out here dancing with their wives can't possibly love them as much as I love you. Because for me, there is only one woman, and I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're it."

husband husbands love wife wives

Erin McCarthy

4d91af8

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Where you ought to be ahead of your wife in virtue, you collapse under the onset of lechery. ... Complaints are always being made about men's lechery, yet wives do not dare to find fault with their husbands for it. Male lechery is so brazen and so habitual that it is now sanctioned [= permitted], to the extent that men tell their wives that lechery and adultery are legitimate for men but not for women.

clichés double-standards fidelity gender hypocrisy marriage men misogyny morality sexuality social-norms stereotypes wives women

Augustine of Hippo

a000118

"Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes."

circumspection husbands marriage married-life separation wives

John le Carré

50acdd6

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

humor me-and-miss-mandible short-story wives

Donald Barthelme

5cd2415

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

husbands inequality inferiority marriage matrimony perception wives

Wallace Stegner

4df1ecb

Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I was his instrument, his animal. Nothing more. How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness. I was just one more of those women who clamp their mouths shut and wave the flag as their nation rolls off to conquer another in war. Guilty or innocent, they have everything to lose. They are what there is to lose. A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.

wife wife-and-husband wives women women-s-roles

Barbara Kingsolver

18b593e

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

counsel wives

Robert Ludlum

baf0617

My father always says, choosing a wife is like putting your hand into a bag full of writhing creatures, with one eel to six snakes. What are the chances you will pull out the eel?

marriage-advice thomas-more wives women

Hilary Mantel