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• When my husband of almost 20 years can’t take his eyes off me? That’s amazing. But the number one reason I go to the gym is because it keeps me sane; I can deal with whatever’s coming at me.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Eye, Years, Numbers

  "Jada Pinkett Smith reveals secrets behind her 105lb body and foreplay with husband Will Smith" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. December 30, 2014.

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• You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Love You, Deep Love, I Love My Family

  "Actress Jada Pinkett Smith". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2011.

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• Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Men And Women

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Wife, Fans, Woody

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• ... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

  Peter De Vries

  Marriage, Earth, Facts

  Peter De Vries (1982). “Forever panting”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Wife, Stories

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• ... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Marriage, Wife, Mistress

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.424, 谷月社

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• A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

  Moliere

  Marriage, Being The Best, Cures

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• Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Eye, Tragedy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.271, Penguin

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• There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Marriage, Giving, Perfect

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• If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Laughing, Married

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• On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

  Phyllis Diller

  Marriage, Common, Married

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• The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Feminism, Becoming

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.331, Open Road Media

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• In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.

  Brendan Behan

  Marriage, Blessing, Wife

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• I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Home, Kind, My Husband

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• Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.

  Brigham Young

  Daughter, Sex, Men

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.268

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• My husband melted my heart the day he asked me, "Can I participate in your wonder?" In whose wonder do you get to participate today?

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Marriage, Valentines Day, Heart

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• My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.

  Denene Millner

  Book, Men, Numbers

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• My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

  Olivia Williams

  Father, Character, My Husband

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• It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Song, Sound, Harmony

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• Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

  George McGovern

  Running, Divorce, Wife

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• I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

  Dwyane Wade

  Dad, Pride, Terrible

  "Dwyane Wade Tackles The Hard Topics: ‘I Was Probably A Terrible Husband’" by Drenna Armstrong, madamenoire.com. May 18, 2013.

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• Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Family, Wife, Peaceful

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• What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Running, Together, Say Anything

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.210

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