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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
Author:
Brenda Ueland
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You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Author:
Lee Trevino
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I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
Author:
Janet Street-Porter
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Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.
Author:
Pepper Schwartz
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All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Author:
Delmore Schwartz
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Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
Author:
Augustus Napier
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I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
Author:
Moliere
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I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.
Author:
Gretchen Mol
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
Author:
H. Mencken
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With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.
Author:
Mercedes McCambridge
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The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
Author:
Shirley MacLaine
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You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
Author:
Ali MacGraw
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But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
Author:
Augustus Longstreet
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A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
Author:
Amy Levy
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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Author:
Washington Irving
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American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
Author:
Elinor Glyn
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Author:
Zsa Gabor
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
Author:
Zsa Gabor
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Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
Author:
Solomon Gabirol
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I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.
Author:
Linda Evans
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Author:
Finley Dunne
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My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
Author:
James Dobson
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Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
Author:
Indra Devi
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Author:
Thomas Dekker
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The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.
Author:
Jackie Collins
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
Author:
Cher
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I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.
Author:
Cher
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Author:
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Author:
Mary Calderone
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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
Author:
George Byron
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The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
Author:
Ann Bancroft
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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Author:
Jane Austen
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So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
Author:
June Allyson
