Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia McConnell

My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."

Oscar Wilde

Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

Oscar Wilde

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

Oscar Wilde

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Mae West

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

Lucretia Mott

the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

Lucretia Mott

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

Lucretia Mott

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Liya Kebede

While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

Margaret Keane

For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

Margaret Oliphant

I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.

Mia Hamm

Every day I look for ways to be inspired, to learn and to grow. And trying to be the best for my kids, my husband and my family. One thing I really wanna do is being there for my kids, be part of my siblings and my parents.

Mehmet Oz

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

Michel de Montaigne

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

Michel de Montaigne

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

Michael Korda

The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

She told us, 'I need to tell my story after so many years, things I have not even told my husband and children. It left me with such pain.

Clifford Odets

There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal.

Only my president and my husband had that.

My first husband was uneducated and very poor. I can't get involved with another uneducated man.

My husband is a big joker and my son-in-law thought he had somehow dummied up a ticket.

My husband has worked here since 1983 though.

My husband got a job in Marshall and we moved here.

My husband and I would love to see him do anything he wants to do.

My husband and I just thought he needs to be in this one.

If the husband hadn't pulled her out so soon, she could have been quickly overcome by fire.

She suggested to the husband to kill himself.

She saw the knife. She knows her husband was angry.

She had to be a very strong woman to support her husband through all those ups and downs.

She (first lady Grant) provided moral support for her husband throughout his military and then political career. They had a very loving relationship.

I didn't have a plan. It was really wild, ... My husband would have loved what I'm doing.

Jeffrey Kluger

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.