Husband Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Ideas, Age, Would Be

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.37, The Floating Press

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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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• [On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.

  Louise Erdrich

  Memories, Book, Thinking

  Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Allan Richard Chavkin, Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994). “Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.

  Stella Benson

  Mother, Son, Men

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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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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• 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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• I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Work, Equality, Ideas

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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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• Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Sweet, Sisterhood

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• The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

  Michael Korda

  Focus, Important, Trivia

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• I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.

  Patti Page

  Thinking, Interesting, Important

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• I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.

  Lillian Russell

  Lonely, Golden, Trinkets

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• Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

  Katha Pollitt

  Cancer, Men, Two

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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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• Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it.

  Mamie Eisenhower

  Boss, Forget, Your Husband

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• I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Marriage, Giving Up, Doctors

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• Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.

  Marie Colvin

  Mother, Children, War

  "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.

  Jean Carroll

  Running, Pride, Hair

  "Milton Berle, With Charm and a Mink" by Jane Wollman Rusoff, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 2006.

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• I'm a Muslim and I'm really looking forward to my wedding day. I can't wait to meet my husband.

  Shazia Mirza

  Waiting, Wedding Day, Looking Forward

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• Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

  Barbara Hutton

  Money, Fascination, Unhappiness

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• We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

  Owen Jones

  Girl, Cheating, Wife

  Owen Jones (2015). “An Exciting Future”, p.23, XinXii

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