Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the hours of prayer, studying the books of law, and memorizing the Koran. Yet their women show no bashfulness before men and do not veil themselves, though they are assiduous in attending prayers. Any man who wishes to marry one of them may do so, but they do not travel with their husbands, and, even if one desired to do so, her family would not allow her to go. The women have their 'friends' and 'companions' amongst the men outside their own families.
Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.
Far too many husbands fail to recognize that what your wife wants and needs most from you is your concern for her soul.
Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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.
[When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It's not abnormal, and it's not just for business. It's just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it's just life.
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues.
Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.
Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.