“If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.” IfsWould BeKidsJobsLeftNeededHusbandConfusedYour HusbandDiapersSo Confused Author:Barbara Steele
“If I hadn’t left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn’t have met my husband and I wouldn’t have had the children that I’ve had. Life is interesting like that.” IfsChildrenMightLife IsLeftInterestingMetsDirectorsHusbandMy HusbandTexas Author:Sissy Spacek
“So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.” ChildrenTodayLeftFocusHusbandFocusedLeft OutEntanglement Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.” PeopleMayMeanCountryHouseLeftPresidentJusticeStruggleGreaterLandStrangeHusbandPortionsResentmentElegantMansionsIowaGood HusbandMartyredRoving Author:Mary Todd Lincoln
“This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: "Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?" Like he can't go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.” ThinkingKnowsLeftWifeWorstHusbandHeyLiftsDevicesBugsSofasCushionsTrackingUterus Author:Roseanne Barr
“For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.” YearsHomeLeftPaintingOne DayHusbandMovedCreditDeceptionCaliforniaHawaii Author:Margaret Keane
“President Obama has two years left as president. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets to appoint two new Kardashian husbands.” IfsYearsTwoLeftPresidentHusbandTwo YearsPresident Obama Author:David Letterman
“I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband, I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny, finally and ultimately sated ... But enough about the pork.” FirstsLongHardEnoughHomeOrderGirlPassionLeftExistenceBirthHusbandDenyEveningIntimateMy HusbandCravingPillsBirth ControlPorkDormantSwept AwaySatedBirth Control Pills Author:Roseanne Barr
“The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.” MadeLeftFourFoodHusbandAccountsCookingCulinaryDispositionDumplings Book:Some Buried Caesar Source: Some Buried Caesar
“Before I ran for District Attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I knew a party-switch was exactly what they wanted. So, I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. But we talked about issues - they never used the words Republican, or Democrat, conservative or liberal. We talked about many issues, like welfare - is it a way of life, or a hand-up? Talked about the size of government - how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned, we're Republicans."” KnowsWaySaidTwoHandsWantedUsedLeftEnjoyPartyIssuesCarRepublicanHusbandDemocratConservativeRanWelfareGoodbyeMy HusbandLunchPoliteInvitedSaying GoodbyeAttorneyChuckHands UpFree Lunch Author:Susana Martinez
“I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.” ThinkingEndsNightLeftSleepMissingReadyHusbandMy HusbandExhaustedTemptedSleeping At NightWindsorNot Sleeping Author:Barbara Windsor
“When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.” ThinkingWritingMadeReasonKidsLeftReadyHusbandMealsMy TimeBuyingMy HusbandGrocers Author:Sadie Jones
“I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.” WantChildrenLeftChangeTakenHusbandFairsWeatherMy ChildrenMy Husband Author:Madame de La Fayette
“The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.” WellsChildrenImportantWholeHomeAgeYoungLeftDifferencesRolesWifeEconomicLandHusbandMembersEssentialsSixTwentiesProsperityManageEnterpriseProductiveHouseholdYoung ChildrenWhole FamilyAmerican FamilyHusband Wife Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“My sister Wendy has a husband and two children, and they have a family photo on top of the VCR, where they're all looking slightly to the left. As though something is going on over there! I guess something happened over to the left that made everybody happy! Except my sister is cross-eyed, so she can't quite pull it off. One eye is right-on.” ChildrenMadeTwoHumorEyeFunnyLeftHappenedHusbandCrossesMy SisterWendyVcrFamily Photo Author:Mitch Hedberg
“When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.” LooksChildrenKidsYoungLeftCommonGrewHusbandMarriedGrew UpAbandonedGetting MarriedYoung ChildrenCommon Things Author:Dacia Maraini