“I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war with someone in my life today - or with myself? Let me work on that. That way war is ending somewhere in the world.” WorldWayWarTodayHusbandArgumentLet MeIraqCaliforniaMy Husband Author:Byron Katie
“Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.” ThinkingMenChildrenWhiteMinutesHusbandMy HusbandWhite ManOne MinuteBiracial Author:Gloria Calderon Kellett
“When my husband gives me this ultimatum, "You either stop singing, or you move out," then it became very clear that what I needed to do - not just because I wanted to sing, but because I didn't want to live with anybody who issued ultimatums to me like that - would be to move out.” WantGivingWould BeWantedMovingClearNeededHusbandSingingGive MeMy HusbandUltimatum Author:Rene Marie
“In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.” KnowsFallTermHappenedHusbandFalling In LoveBest ThingsMy HusbandAnniversary Author:Caroline Kennedy
“One night my son was downstairs studying, and he had been up so late all that week, and my husband said, "I feel so sorry for him." I said, "Look, if he's going to become a surgeon" - he is studying to be a doctor - "he's going to have his hard times. I feel sorry for him too, but if he lives in this world he's going to have more hard times. He's going to stay up some more nights." I think we can't shield them from the hard times, even though we'd like to. I say to the children that I teach and to my own - I can't test the ground for you and tell you that's a safe step there.” IfsThinkingWorldFeelsLooksChildrenSaidI CanHardNightMy OwnStepsTeachStudyWeekThis WorldSonSafeHusbandLateDoctorsTestsSorryHard TimesMy HusbandMy SonShieldsOne NightSurgeonsSorry For Him Author:Marva Collins
“So many people joke that life with me - a professed lifelong penny pincher - must be tough. But [my husband] is a great money manager. And he helps me let go of my fear of spending while still being frugal.” PeopleStillsHelpingHusbandLetting GoJokesToughSpendingManagersHelp MeMy HusbandLifelongPenniesFrugalGreat Money Author:Michelle Singletary
“I had watched an episode of Black Mirror almost exactly a year prior to when I started shooting my episode. I was by myself in New Zealand, and my husband was like, "You have to see this show. It's so incredible."” YearsShowsBlackLike YouHusbandMirrorsIncrediblesShootingMy HusbandEpisodesNew Zealand Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the business and he doesn't want to be. I'm interested in his world, he's interested in mine, but we have our own things that we do together.” WorldWantGivingWellsRealTogetherSpaceMinesHusbandMy Husband Author:Dolly Parton
“I don't have a nightlife. People say, "You need these cocktail dresses for all the receptions" - except I don't go, because we have no idea if we are going to be in session. But my husband has encouraged me to, shall we say, keep up with fashion.” PeopleIfsNeedsIdeasFashionHusbandDressesNo IdeaMy HusbandSessionCocktailsReceptionNightlifeCocktail Dresses Author:Nancy Pelosi
“When I go home, I am a slug. I want to do everything completely opposite of what I do on the red carpet. I like to take off all my makeup, put on a t-shirt, be completely unassuming and just do stuff with my husband and my daughter.” WantHomeStuffHusbandDaughterRedOppositesShirtsMakeupMy DaughterMy HusbandT ShirtCarpetRed CarpetSlugsUnassuming Author:Viola Davis
“Many things inspire me. First and foremost, my family, my husband, and our son. I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.” WayFirstsDifferentShareInspireSonHusbandAppreciateMy FamilyDifferent WaysMy HusbandAppreciate Life Author:Alicia Keys
“One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her.” ChildrenMadeTwoWholeSeemsCareJobsMotherLostGriefFourImagineOne ThingExampleMomGoes OnMetsHusbandModelsOur ChildrenOneselfMy MomWhole LifeGrandmotherMy HusbandMy GrandmotherBeltsGood ExamplesTwo Jobs Author:Patti Smith
“In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser or a secretary. I couldn't stomach it. Later on, when I fell in love with my husband and had children, that's when my mother's earthiness or sense of femaleness kicked in.” IfsChildrenMotherGirlHusbandMy HusbandStomachSecretaryRibbonsHairdresser Author:Patti Smith
“I'm trying, now that I am in my dotage, to use a lot less sugar and my husband and I really try to keep close to a minimum of fat; chicken, fish, loads of salads and legumes. We both love all of those. To be honest, nothing that is in our diet is that original. We eat seafood but we do not eat shellfish. On the other hand, if my body says to me, "eat meat" I do. I listen to my body, I think that's important.” IfsThinkingTryingImportantUseBodyHandsHonestHusbandOriginalsFishesFatsBeing HonestMeatDietsMy HusbandChickensSugarLoadMinimumSaladSeafoodShellfish Author:Rita Moreno
“My husband was a hospital architect and he was working on some hospitals in Alberta, and I told him to try to find out what they thought about separatism. He would come back on weekends. He said "well, I think I found out how they feel about separatism. I brought it up at lunch in the cafeteria, and everybody at the table was silent and then somebody said 'Let's change the subject'."” ThinkingFeelsTryingWellsSaidFoundSubjectsHusbandTablesSilentMy HusbandHospitalsLunchWeekendArchitectCafeteriaAlberta Author:Jane Jacobs
“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
“We have two boys. After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, we had to explain to our older son, who was 12 at the time, how that could happen. Instead of hugging and consoling him, my husband pulled out a documentary about Emmett Till and showed it to him and started to talk about how the justice system works in this country - and how it often doesn't. From that conversation, our son wrote a short story about Trayvon Martin going to heaven to meet Emmett Till.” TwoCountryStoriesHappensFoundHeavenJusticeBoysSonHusbandConversationKillingGuiltyMy HusbandShort StoryHugDocumentariesJustice SystemConsolingNot GuiltyGoing To HeavenTrayvon MartinEmmett TillTrayvonZimmerman Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“I grew up around so many beautiful things. My mother's jewelry and purses - they're very much statement pieces. Again, that sort of over-the-top Russian thing where it looks like treasure. I always say to my husband, you don't ever have to get me another piece of jewelry. When your mother is this amazing woman, a North Star, sometimes you want a simpler presentation of yourself.” SometimesBeautifulMotherHusbandMy HusbandBeautiful ThingsJewelryAmazing Woman Author:Natasha Gregson Wagner
“Divorce is the hardest obstacle I've had to overcome in my life. I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive. My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there was a lot of bitterness initially. Although we are still divorced, we still call each other "family." It was a journey to get there, but it's a beautiful place to be.” PeopleBelieveTogetherBeautifulJourneyHusbandMarriedOvercomingObstaclesDivorceI RealizedTherapyMy HusbandBitternessDivorcedBeautiful Places Author:Regina King
“I'll always remember the phrase of my husband: "Racism is never surprising, but it is always disappointing." Anytime I see it or I feel it, that quote comes back. This is something that has to be constantly talked about in order to be changed.” RememberChangedHusbandRacismMy HusbandDisappointing Author:Ashley Graham
“With my husband it was never like "omg, should I text him?" or "he didn't call me for two days." So, I think I knew it was right because it just happened so naturally. That's one piece of advice that I would give to women who are struggling in this crazy world of dating.” ThinkingWorldGivingStruggleCrazyAdviceHusbandDatingCall MeMy HusbandOne PieceCrazy World Author:Lindsay Ellingson
“You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.” ThinkingJudgingBalanceHusbandMy Husband Author:Farah Diba
“After my husband, Dave, died, I called my friend Adam, a psychologist who studies how people find meaning in our lives, and I asked him what, if anything, I could do to help myself and my kids get through this. We started talking about resilience, then reading about it, then talking to other people who had gotten through grief and other huge challenges. In time, those conversations and that research helped me heal.” PeopleHelpingKidsReadingChallengesGriefStudyHusbandResilienceHealWhat IfMy HusbandFind MePsychologist Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“It does happen to be a historical fact that my husband served as president for eight years. And there's a lot that happened which helped the American people during those eight years. I want an economy that creates more jobs. And that's a lot of jobs. I want an economy that gets back to raising incomes for everybody.” PeoplePresidentEconomyHusbandHistoricalMy Husband Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I had been dating my husband for a while, the president Obama said to me, "When is he going to put a ring on it?" And I was like, "Oh, come on. We are so busy. We don't need to think about that." He said, "He needs to put a ring on it because you're worth it." And the thing is, I'm not even kidding you, it was about a week or two later that we got engaged.” ThinkingPresidentWeekHusbandDatingBusyRingsMy HusbandPresident ObamaWorth It Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“The beautiful gift of my husband is that he saw me the way I've always wanted to be seen and there's something really powerful to that. When you find true love I really believe that that's what it is at its core. He makes me want to be a better person, but then he also sees me and reminds me that I am a good person.” BelieveBeautifulPowerfulHusbandMy HusbandGood PersonBetter PersonBeing A Better PersonReally Powerful Author:Jeremiah Brent
“My whole childhood when I was growing up, Michael Jackson was my husband. My cousins had Jackie Jackson and my sister had Jermaine Jackson. We all had the brothers, but Michael was my husband. So, to me, in my little 6-year-old or 13-year-old brain I'm talking to my husband. I don't want to get over excited. I don't want to sound too much like a screaming fan.” BrainGrowing UpChildhoodBrotherHusbandExcitedMy HusbandMy SisterCousin Author:Siedah Garrett
“I've always tried to make sure that what I do really connects with the broader agenda of what my husband Barack Obama is trying to do.... But I also find that I have to be very passionate myself about the issue to be able to represent it well. One of the big issues that I've talked a lot about...is childhood health, nutrition and obesity.” TryingChildhoodHusbandPassionateBarackMy HusbandNutritionObesity Author:Michelle Obama
“Everyone was like, "Why do you need to meet someone on Match.com?" My response was, "I certainly don't need to meet more of the same broke, acting class guys that I'd been dating my whole life." I needed to change that whole paradigm. So, I decided to meet some corporate guys and see how that worked. So, I went on Match, but I didn't put a picture up, because I'm on television, and I didn't want anybody contacting me for the wrong reasons. So, I had to do the hunting, as it were. I didn't anticipate meeting my husband online, but there he was. And it all worked out!” ReasonGuyActingHusbandDatingMeetingsResponseWhole LifeBrokeOnlineMy HusbandHuntingParadigm Author:Essence Atkins
“I was up at Big Sur with Christopher Reeve and Christine Lahti, doing this woman in a big fat-suit - Mrs. Bassett in Tennessee Williams' Summer And Smoke - and my husband was in the show too, playing Lahti's fiancée. Every night he'd be proposing to beautiful Christine Lahti, and I'd barrel onstage in this fat-suit. I hated it! But I did it, because by then I knew that that was my casting.” BeautifulNightHusbandSummerHatedMy Husband Author:Beth Grant
“I love Donnie Darko movie so much. Just before I got that script, I had been to see some European art film. I walked out of that movie and said to my husband, "That's what I want to do! I want to do an art film and take it to the edge." Within two weeks, we were getting ready to go on vacation, and my agent called.” ArtFilmWeekHusbandMy HusbandVacation Author:Beth Grant
“My husband and I can't get through dinner without being defensive. We've been married 24 years, and I love my husband to death, but sometimes I say, "What are we? Two injured creatures who can't talk to each other without going, like, 'Ahhh!'?"” SometimesHusbandMarriedMy HusbandLove My Husband Author:Beth Grant
“I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be the Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.''” RememberHusbandMy HusbandMistress Author:Princess Diana
“I admire people who find that what fulfills them is their art or their work, but what fulfills both me and my husband is our family. Knowing that, everything else comes second. We've each given up stuff we loved in order to not work at the same time.” PeopleArtHusbandAdmireOur FamilyMy Husband Author:Blake Lively
“Women's sexuality is something that is a very touchy subject for a lot of women...I had to free my body from all of the binding, all the shutting down, and all of the censorship I had already put on it. When I did that, everything in my life changed. My relationship with my husband changed. My relationship to the world changed. My relationship to my body changed. My relationship to my female friends changed in huge ways.” WorldChangedHusbandFemaleSexualityLife ChangingMy HusbandCensorship Author:Sheila Kelley
“I consider taking a road trip with my husband to be the epitome of happiness. It's been so hectic lately that it's been hard to plan one, but we always drive to North Carolina, where he's from, for Christmas. We'll be doing that again soon.” HusbandMy HusbandRoad TripHectic Author:Pamela Love
“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
“I wear all my T-shirts from Helmut Lang with the holes in the elbows, which people always speak of. When my husband gets a hole in his sweater, at his elbow, he says, "It's very Helmut Lang!"” PeopleSpeakHusbandMy Husband Author:Polly Allen Mellen
“I just want to say, I'm not interest in politics. Politics is my husband, and since he's not interested in politics anymore, then I'm not interested in politics. I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Trump, I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Macron, and I don't care, do you understand?” CareWishInterestHusbandLuckMy HusbandNot InterestedGood Luck Author:Carla Bruni
“I still feel vibrant and alive that way. I'm in a marriage where we put an enormous amount into our marriage. I always say, there's me, there's my husband, and then there's the "us," the us that we create. That's what we really take care of. We never, ever take it for granted. We do everything we can to be together, not to be separated for periods of time. We're just a very, very tight family unit, and we're really kind to each other. I think it's so underrated; people don't appreciate the necessity of that in society now.” PeopleThinkingKindCareTogetherHusbandAppreciateTake CareGrantedMy Husband Author:Nicole Kidman
“There was a courtroom scene where my son is convicted of killing Kevin Spacey's character. I find the bloody T-shirt and realize my husband did it. I get up the courage to take the shirt and send it to the police as evidence. I go out of the house for the first time. There was all this stuff I had to do that became quite truncated, because they slimmed down the movie. I understand the American Beauty is brilliant without all that stuff, but for me, personally, it was hard to see all that go.” CharacterHouseRealizingSonSceneHusbandEvidenceFirst TimePoliceKillingBrilliantShirtsMy HusbandMy SonBloodyCourtroom Author:Allison Janney
“Dr. King has long been my hero. I didn't get to work with him much, but my husband did in the early years. Dr. King gave his life, really, to the struggle for everyone. And he believed in non-violence. That's what I've tried to do in terms of my life and my work, following the teachings of God.” LongTermStruggleTeachingHeroHusbandMy HusbandMy Hero Author:Shirley Sherrod
“I would go with my husband to the tailors where he gets his shirts made, and I would watch the bespoke process. I would ask them, "Would you be able to make that for me?" And they would always say, "Well, yes, but no." They were very French about it. I decided I would just do it for myself. And I started doing that. Then other people would notice, and want it. So I started doing things for friends, little pieces, and my own line grew that way.” PeopleHusbandShirtsMy HusbandJust Do It Author:Minnie Mortimer
“I love working with young artists. Jacob Latimore was the first kid that I auditioned. After he walked out, I turned to my husband and said, "I think that's the kid. I don't know if I have to look any further. He's the one!" He's a real star.” ThinkingRealKidsArtistHusbandMy Husband Author:Kasi Lemmons
“We chose to do a reality show with my husband Dean McDermott, because we wanted to give the reality of our situation, not to kind of mask it if the things got kind of uncomfortable. So we pretty much put it all out there and I think the viewers will appreciate that.” ThinkingGivingKindRealitySituationHusbandAppreciateUncomfortableMaskMy HusbandReality Shows Author:Tori Spelling
“My husband is the mayor. He has a lot of advisors. He has many advisors. Trust me. I'm not always the last one to state my opinion to him. And he does not always take my opinion. I think it's totally fair for any - in any couple, we just assume that people are speaking to their spouse. This is no different. In this day and age, I think we're going to see more couples like us. You know, couples who work together. I'm a volunteer, but I take this work very seriously and I want to help my husband in any way I can.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHelpingAgeTogetherOpinionCoupleHusbandAssumingWorking TogetherMy HusbandThis DayVolunteerSpouseTrust Me Author:Chirlane McCray
“I still have a stammer. I hate it; I loathe and despise it. But it's always there, and I have lots of ways to conceal it. I can conceal it now but I'm not good on the telephone. I get my husband to make dentist appointments. And I hate live radio. Hate it. I really try to avoid it at all costs. But it's always there. Stammerers become skilled at sentence construction and synonyms: we have to be. Faced with a problem word, we need to have instant access to eight others we could use instead - ones we could say without stumbling. I think my stammer is a huge part of my being a writer.” ThinkingTryingProblemHateHusbandI HateInstantMy HusbandConstructionDentistSynonym Author:Maggie O'Farrell
“My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the manuscript is crucial and irreplaceable and you want them to approach it as someone in a bookshop might, not knowing much about it. So I've got into this pattern of not telling Will anything about the book I'm working on. He often knows nothing about the book I'm working on at all until I give him the whole manuscript and ask him to read it. The book I'm working on at the moment he knows nothing about. No one does.” GivingImportantBookMomentsReadingHusbandMy HusbandIrreplaceable Author:Maggie O'Farrell
“The big message is that we need to reimagine and re-engineer how we work - what does work mean and how do we measure what's good? The second thing we need to reimagine is our relationships - who does what and why? One of the biggest things that has helped me and my husband is coming up with a common set of standards about what it takes to run our house, what is a fair way to divide tasks, and how are we going to keep each other accountable?” MeanRunningHouseCommonHusbandMy HusbandOur Relationship Author:Brigid Schulte