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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“I am far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves; but no slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
“I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.” Jane Austen, Emma
“My husband used to say, that man and wife are equal in love because of their equal claim on each other. I never argued the point with him, but my heart said that devotion never stands in the way of true equality; it only raises the level of the...” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“He felt, no doubt, more sorry for her than her indignant relatives; but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“I have noticed since that men usually leave married women alone, and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the President’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy, so much so that, on dying, he left the place to her for her lifetime, as well as the larger part of his income; an arrangement that was distinctly unfair to his two sons.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. She was turned to a pillar of salt.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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