Husband Quotes - Page 18

• [On husband Phil Donahue:] The man does not know the meaning of the word tidy. He asked me one day, 'Where are my shoes?' So I asked him, 'Where are my shoes?' I don't know what it is about men. They think that women have radar attached to our uteruses.

  Marlo Thomas

  Men, Thinking, Shoes

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• I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

  Julia Ward Howe

  My Husband, Mines, Known

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• one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

  Fay Weldon

  Wife, Infidelity, Unfaithful

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.128, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Marriage, Brother, Children

  James Sheridan Knowles (1859). “The Dramatic Works of James Sheridan Knowles: The love chase. Woman's wit. The maid of Mariendorpt. Love. John of Procida. Old maids. The rose of Arragon. The secretary”, p.255

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• The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.

  Rex Stout

  Food, Cooking, Four

  Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.78, Crimeline

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• Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Block, Home, Eight

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Father, Men, Listening

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• [When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

  Hermione Gingold

  Matter, Opinion, Stills

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• My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Creativity, Circles, Refined

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• Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Understanding, Dollars, Three

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• I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman...with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers...

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Butterfly, Hunting, Missing

  "The Life of Mary Russell Mitford", vol. 1, by Mary Russell Mitford, (letter to Sir William Elford, 1st Baronet), 1870.

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• suppose you invest time and effort in designing a new image for yourself. You get home and your husband takes one look and screams, 'Was the other person hurt? I see you've been in a head-on collision.' ... Men hate any change.

  Virginia Graham

  Change, Hurt, Hate

  Virginia Graham (1967). “Don't blame the mirror”

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• [On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

  Barbara Boxer

  Bed, Politician, Eleanor

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• I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

  Hedda Hopper

  Gone, Alive, Able

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• The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Lovers, Misery

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• Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

  Neil Diamond

  Pride, Numbers, Wife

  Song: Husbands And Wives, Album: Stones, 1971

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• I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

  Anita Brookner

  Self, Important

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• It is tempting to think of your husband-to-be as just another bridal accessory. It may be easier for him to play along with this too. After all, you don't expect your shoes or your beaded bag to help you make decisions.

  Mimi Pond

  Thinking, Play, Shoes

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• Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Wife, Together, Weakness

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• In the '80s, I thought I'd be a success as a woman if I were the president of a billion dollar company, had a sensitive soul-mate husband, two bilingual children, buns of steels, and a compost heap. In the '90s, I pretty much feel I'm a success if I can get through the afternoon without eating a cheesecake.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Children, Two, Soul

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• If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Wedlock, Seriousness, Ifs

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• [On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

  June Allyson

  Laughing, Upset, Obsession

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• [On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

  Pat Nixon

  Way, Eras, March

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• Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Dream, Art, Winning

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• [Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

  Mary Kingsley

  Responding

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