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“Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.”

“My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.”

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Book:Travels in England in 1782

Source: Travels in England in 1782

“Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.”

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Author:James Tiptree Jr.

“We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last word. We trust each other. We have our past working life in common, our recombined families, as well as our life as teachers, and we read much of the same literature and have similar esthetics, so there's a simpatico there. But we do disagree and that can be fruitful, even if it's not so great in the moment.”

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Author:Dorianne Laux

“Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.”

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Book:Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

Source: Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

“My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young women who stay current with the scientific literature may demand genetic tests of their boyfriends to assess how likely they are to make faithful husbands.”

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Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.”

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Book:Marilyn: A Biography

Source: Marilyn: A Biography

“An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.”

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Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.”

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Book:Anchorwoman

Source: Anchorwoman

“And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.”

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Author:Bob Schieffer

“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”

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Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

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