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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
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A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
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A woman asking ''Am I good? Am I satisfied?'' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
Letter to John Adams (5 August 1776) -
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
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Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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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.
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
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In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776 -
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
Love at Second Sight (1916) Ch. xviii -
Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
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