96 Quotes About Wives
- Author Catherynne M. Valente
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We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.
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- Author Elizabeth Hardwick
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[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.
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- Author Raymond Chandler
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American girls are terrific. American wives take too damn much territory.
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- Author Miriam Lichtheim
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Unas is lord of seed who takes wives from their husbands,Whenever Unas wishes, as his heart urges.Utterance 317Entrance to the Antechamber, West WallThe king appears as the crocodile-god Sobk
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- Author Nancy Rubin Stuart
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Raised in an era when women were valued for their sexuality, solicitude , and silence, the eighteen year old stood loyally by Arnold's side.
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- Author Nihar Satpathy
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There are wives who are considered to be the blessing of a home, and then there are those who bring disaster into the household. Further, there are wives who cause poverty and starvation in the family. Some of them even cause cracks in the family, while there is also the kind of wife who brings showers of prosperity.
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- Author Walter Mosley
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I found out a lot about my father as he regaled my wife. He'd learned how to be a potter in a small village in Bolivia. There, working on a kick-wheel in a shack the size of an outhouse, he started thinking about the few novels he'd read.
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- Author Jack Dancer
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Girlfriends are not wives. I draw the line at married women. Actually, women married to men with guns. If someone's girlfriend wants to make herself available, that's her business. Just don’t give my name to your boyfriend.
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- Author Stephen King
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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...
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