“One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.” HumansChildrenRealizingSimpleHalfOur LivesWifeSubjectsHusbandEgoPatternsSeekingListsHuman LifeNovelistsTragicGrandmotherShadeConventionalPullingSweetnessAnguishHusband And WifeHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsAffectionatePulling AwayLoving Husband Book:Not Under Forty Source: Not Under Forty
“There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.” ShouldLooksHomeEyeWifeSubjectsHusbandShould HaveMarkRelationRegardAffectionStrangerFaithfulTiesPatriotismSheepCrownsMonarchyForeignersInternational RelationsChaste Author:Elizabeth I
“The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.” MenChoicesMarriageWifeSubjectsHusbandMen And WomenQueensPatriarchyHumiliateElevating Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Sex is still the most interesting subject under the sun. People will say my wife is too tired or my husband is too tired, and I listen and I say 'go for help.'” PeopleStillsHelpingSexInterestingSunWifeSubjectsHusbandTiredMy WifeMy HusbandMost Interesting Author:Ruth Westheimer
“I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't a very popular position in the Administration, with her own husband having ordered by executive order the internment. Maybe she was just told: "Look, we're in a war now. Turn off your social conscience."” LooksI CanIdeasWarOrderTurnsSocialImagineSubjectsPositionHusbandConscienceAdministrationNo IdeaExecutivesImagine ThatTurn OffVery PopularExecutive OrdersInternment Author:William A. Rusher
“I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.” WaySubjectsHusbandCoffeeMy HusbandBedroomOutlinesThermos Author:Lynne Rae Perkins
“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
“I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)” MenShouldMatterPrinciplesSubjectsHusbandFemaleIntelligentIndependentTyrannySensibleWhimMatrimonyAmeliaAmelia Peabody Author:Barbara Mertz
“I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office” WantYearsEndsSchoolFatherMy OwnSubjectsHusbandOfficeDoctorsLawyerChosenServantKitchenMy Own LifePlanters Author:Jorge Amado