“I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.” ThinkingWantFightingCausesNaturalMinutesHusbandBotherMy HusbandSay AnythingYour HusbandPropensityWedges Author:Jen Lancaster
“I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.” FightingFatherHusbandPaidComplainingMy HusbandClose FriendsOligarchyUkrainian Author:Yulia Tymoshenko
“All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.” MenWorldLongHas BeensDoneFightingSidesJusticeForgetSonBrotherBearsOne DayHusbandInjusticeSexismSensibleLong LifeSemblanceSixth Sense Author:Amelia Barr
“You can have terrible things happen in your family. A husband and wife can be having a knock-down, drag-out fight and the minute one of the kids gets hurt, the fight is over and it's about the family.” HappensKidsFightingHurtWifeMinutesTerribleHusbandThings HappenOur FamilyDragTerrible ThingsHusband And Wife Author:Sophia Bush
“I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do. I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking. If I'm going to do this, sacrifice time with family and friends, sacrifice resources, I need to think carefully about what I going to say and how I'm going to say it.” IfsThinkingNeedsTwoCharacterFightingAsksAnimalSacrificeIdentitySonHugeGoes OnDadHusbandResourcesThirdsPursueAsk MeMy SonFamily And Friends Author:Ben Sollee
“By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually a point-by-point rebuttal of her husband's foreign policy. We need collective security. We need a World Court. We need something like the League of Nations. We need to work together to fight fascism. We need embargoes against aggressor nations, and we need to name aggressor nations. All of which is a direct contradiction of FDR's policies.” WorldNeedsWritingBookTogetherFightingNamesNationsSecurityPolicyHusbandDirectAngryCourtLeagueContradictionCollectivesWorking TogetherFascismForeign PolicyEleanorAggressorsLeague Of NationsRebuttalCollective Security Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.” PeopleIfsStoriesUseFormArtistFightingNumbersFictionStepsSupportNovelWifeGroupsDyingHusbandClubsRecoveryServingSpouseDiariesNon FictionOutrageousChokeAccountingColonySubmarinesSupport Groups12 Step Recovery12 Step Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner” KnowsWorldBelieveKindChildrenImportantHardYoungMotherTurnsFightingParentAttitudeGoneHusbandParentingEndureDevelopingRoughBe KindDelightfulCheerfulBeing A MotherYour HusbandLove And FriendshipKinds Of LoveYoung MotherWhiners Author:Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.” IfsWayChildrenWantedGirlFightingFatherDecisionInvolvedHusbandConsequenceConcernIndiaAngryBritishMy HusbandDevotedMonkeys Author:Indira Gandhi
“There's a lot that I haven't put up there since my husband passed away because then it would be grief everyday. I have to fight within myself at times and ask, 'how do I go through the grief and find a light, even a glimmer of it?'” LightWould BeFightingAsksGriefHavensHusbandEverydayMy HusbandPassed Away Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“Unfortunately, this past birthday, my son was up the entire night before, very sick with that horrible - I think it was called the Norovirus or whatever the hell that was that was going around. So I got it. And then my husband [Paul Scheer] got it. We were both fighting it because he had planned this whole day for me, and we were both pretending it wasn't happening. We were literally driving ourselves to a massage and facial that he had planned and at one point, I was like, "I can't drive anymore. I need to get in the passenger's seat."” ThinkingNeedsI CanWholePastNightFightingHellSonHusbandHappeningsSickDrivingHorribleSeatsMy HusbandMy SonPretendingPassengersMassageFacial Author:June Diane Raphael
“Lady Bird was very, very shy and yet she would go out and speak publicly on behalf of her husband and on issues that mattered to her. Someone asked her once how she did it, and she said you have to "get so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." And I have found that that absolutely captures those moments when I fought for something I cared about. I get so caught up in fighting for things that are important to me that it pushes me through fear and doubt.” ImportantMomentsFightingSpeakForgetDoubtHusbandBirdShyCaught Up Author:Wendy Davis
“I wake up in the night screaming sometimes when I've had a fight with my husband, more than with the company. I still sleep very well. I take it day by day. I am a very pragmatic person. That's how I survive.” SometimesNightFightingSleepHusbandWake UpMy HusbandPragmatic Author:Frida Giannini
“The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.” TryingSometimesMightFightingAcceptingAcceptanceBedTenHusbandBreathsWetYour HusbandTowels Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.” PeopleI CanFightingCryHusbandMy Husband Author:Gwen Stefani
“My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.” WayInspirationalFirstsLongFightingMarriageDogFriendsLuckyHusbandCatMadMy HusbandSoulmateCat And DogMy SoulmateLove My HusbandI Love My Husband Author:Carnie Wilson
“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.” FeelsLittlesEndsHappensNightFightingPartyStudyWifeWindHairHusbandMountainSkinsHotGlassesEdgesDesertBeerDryNecksNervesKnivesSantaCocktailsCurlsMeekBoozeAnything Can HappenCarvingWind BlowingHair Blowing Book:Trouble Is My Business: A Novel Source: Trouble Is My Business: A Novel
“Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.” SoulSchoolNightFightingHurtCourageWifeRightsEasierHusbandGoodnessStonesStrongerGrievingInsultHave FaithCowardiceCharitableSchool Friends Author:Paulo Coelho
“...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.” MenWayLoveGivingMadeSeemsAgeFightingNaturalPovertyTaughtBearsComfortHusbandLongingMeg Book:Little Women Source: Little Women
“If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your wife, your husband, or even (god forbid) your job. It doesn't matter if it's wild to anyone else: if it's what makes your heart sing, if it's what makes your days soar like a hawk in the summertime, then focus on it. Because for sure, it's wild, and if it's wild, it'll mean you're still free. No matter where you are.” IfsHeartMeanStillsMatterJobsFightingFocusWifeProtectHusbandMountainPreservesRangeWhere You AreSoarHawksYour HusbandSummertimeMountain Ranges Author:Rick Bass
“DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.” IfsKnowsLawDiesFightingGivenPromiseHusbandRelaxBowsApolloTrademarks Author:Anne Carson