#husbands

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!! ↗

— Caroline Corr

#children #home #husband #husbands #i

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. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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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. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#end #fall #furniture #generally #had

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#being #cannot #entire #fail #give

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ↗

— George Byron

#butler #daughters #grow #husbands #off

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#first #husbands #i #i always #kinda

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#bed #brave #desire #generous #husbands