Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Quinn

Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet

Nelson DeMille

Kate had never been married, so she had no way of knowing if I was a normal husband. This has been good for our marriage.

Nell Freudenberger

I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

Mike Huckabee

A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.

Noam Chomsky

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

Mike Pence

Hillary Clinton and her husband set up a private foundation called the Clinton Foundation. While she was secretary of state, the Clinton foundation accepted tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and foreign donors. Now y'all need to know out there, this is basic stuff, foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the American political process.

Jodi Picoult

He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.

Jodi Picoult

I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.

Jodi Picoult

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Jodi Picoult

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

Marquis de Sade

Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.

Niecy Nash

When you like what you like, it makes it easy for your husband to shop for you!

Niecy Nash

I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.

Nicole Krauss

("Let's stand under a tree," she said. "Why?" "Because it's nicer." "Maybe you should sit on a chair, and I'll stand above you, like they always do with husbands and wives." "That's stupid." "Why's it stupid?" "Because we're not married." "Should we hold hands?" "We can't." "But why?" "Because, people will know." "Know what?" "About us." "So what if they know?" "It's better when it's a secret." "Why?" "So no one can take it from us.")

Nicole Richie

I'm gonna dress up as an iPhone so my husband pays attention to me.

Nicholas Sparks

Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.

Nicholas Sparks

Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.

Nawal El Saadawi

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

Nawal El Saadawi

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

Natasha Henstridge

It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.

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.