“Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.” MenDoneFatherToo MuchListeningHusbandDamnMy HusbandListeners Author:Adela Rogers St. Johns
“Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.” MenMarriageWifeListeningHusbandCapacityComplainingPopularityBoast Author:H. L. Mencken
“I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about murdering your husband's cousin?" And there are, of course, things that aren't in your personal repertoire that you have to somehow understand by reading or watching other things and listening to other people talk about them.” PeopleSaidCoursesReadingListeningHusbandThey SaidCousinTrickyYour HusbandListening To OthersLady Macbeth Author:Judi Dench
“A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.” KnowsMenYearsMeanArtWisdomEyeTimeGirlThreeHurtKnowledgeWorryWifeCryListeningPromiseHusbandCleanWideTheeCooksMealsHer EyesReally MeanSweetestI PromiseEyes Wide Open Author:Alan Beck
“I remember listening to an interview with Beyonce and she talked about how she and her husband, Jay-Z, have always made it a point to have the conversation about them be about their music, not about their business, not about their personal business.” MadeRememberListeningHusbandConversationMade ItInterviewsBeyoncePersonal Business Author:Jennifer Lopez
“You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The irony of this is, though, had Ms.[Hillary] Clinton listened to her husband instead of her boss, she might could have stopped this Rust Belt redneck revolt.” PeopleMightHurtListeningHusbandClintonQuittingIronyBossBubblesBeltsRedneckRevoltRust Author:Mary Matalin
“Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases such as "and they can deliver it tomorrow" or "so I've invited them for dinner?" or "they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply.” ImportantAbleLastsProcessCan DoLinesWifeReadyListeningTomorrowSkillsHusbandBlueDinnerSentencesDialoguePhrasesInvitedParallelsSam Vimes Author:Terry Pratchett
“Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.” RoomsListeningBedHusbandNewspapersBreathingStaringHousewifeSpinsters Author:Germaine Greer