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Quotes About Husbands

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
~ Hedy Lamarr
How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
~ Gail Collins
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
~ George Eliot
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
~ Erica Jong
Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
~ Warren Farrell
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
~ Lee Trevino
Husbands are a by-product of marriage,' said Harvey. 'A waste product,' corrected Mercy Newbegin.
~ Len Deighton
And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I shall get husbands for them before the winter is over.'' I thank you for my share of the favour,'' said Elizabeth, But I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands.
~ Jane Austen
Guns don't kill people, husbands who come home early from work kill people
~ Larry the Cable Guy
Since Sissy had been born months before the subject of Not Having Any More Children had been brought up, there had been a couple of times and one entire Network meeting that had been dedicated to it. The husbands were all invited, since they had something to do with it. It was common, revolutionary courtesy.
~ Todd Boyd
I don't care about the London season! It is too matrimonial. People are either hunting for husbands, or hiding from them.
~ Oscar Wilde
Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public...
~ Oscar Wilde
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes
~ Oscar Wilde
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognise them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
~ Oscar Wilde
A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.
~ Pat Conroy
Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
~ Pat Conroy
Severe penalties were laid upon them for striking their husbands, wives were not allowed to go out in public unveiled, and strict fidelity was exacted of them—though their husbands might have all the concubines they could afford.
~ Will Durant
Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you. No matter how famous or powerful they became, my husbands would always long to be cherished. They would always yearn to feel worthy.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The same is true about husbands being the "spiritual heads" of their households (not one verse says that), about Sunday and not Saturday being Christians' set-apart day of rest and worship (just ask Seventh Day Adventists)
~ Christian Smith
Young men ... learn practical skills that set is in good stead for lives as the husbands of wealthy and educated women: Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, Explosive Displays of Authority, Sport and Nutrition Against Impotance.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Their is one advantage in a plurality of wifes; tha fite each other, insted ov their husbands.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
~ Warren Farrell
Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.
~ Caroline Leavitt