Quotes about Wives

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Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beau — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or the — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
My wife does not need the whole country to play politics with. We are only the two of us at home but she plays the highe — Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married? — Barbra Streisand
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to sa — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Ho — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacri — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. — Héloïse d'Argenteuil, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
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 — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight whic — Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.
That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, — Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives
As a general rule, it is highly desirable that ladies should keep their temper: a woman when she storms always makes her — Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
Our planet is about ... billions of years old. So far, the earliest finds of modern human skeletons come from Africa, wh — Nadja Sam
Empowered Women 101: Real women don't tell the world or elude to it on Pinterest, Facebook or any other social media pla — Shannon L. Alder
The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day — Shannon L. Alder
Wasn’t I allowed at least one nervous breakdown a year? Maybe next year Jon and I could pencil it into our calendar. May — Anna Aquino
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde — P.G. Wodehouse, Summer Moonshine
Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discover — file them for future reference.
Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, — John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy