#wives

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

#citizens #creatures #duties #fathers #free

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#die #jewish #men #their #want

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

#absolutely #back #been #before #choice

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday. ↗

— Jim Henson

#back #called #days #had #housewives

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. ↗

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #environment #had #high #males

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives. ↗

— Keith Henson

#children #had #over #wives #women

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#before #bodies #came #castle #confronted

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you. ↗

— Kate Hudson

#beautiful thing #could #ever #ex-wives #eyes

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

— Jane Austen

#husbands #opposition #understand #vain #will

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#children #compound #died #end #far