#husbands

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#families #great #husbands #impulse #particularly

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. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#always #amazed #anything #babies #come

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. ↗

— Washington Irving

#become #brothers #child #desert #endures

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. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#care #child #child care #control #economic

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#even #few #galling #government #husbands

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#hoard #husbands #many #men #their

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#knives #like #lives #look #poets

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. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#children #decision #discipline #equal #give

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#husbands #maids #nothing #them #want