“The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?"” YearsMindMadeStatesProblemAsksHouseUnitedUnited StatesWifeMiddleCenturyStrangeBedLongingLaysSilentBuriedYearning20th CenturyGroceriesDissatisfactionStirringUnspokenAmerican WomanMystiqueBrowniesFeminine Mystique Author:Betty Friedan
“Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.” LawWifeLaysLawyer Author:Joan Rivers
“As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.” WantChildrenWifeAuthorityTreatsLaysOur Family Author:Brigham Young
“My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.” PeopleFeelsTryingHumorFunnyWaterWifeLaysSorryMy WifeFatsBeach Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.” ChildrenLastsWifeRightsLaysCopiesBricks Author:George Bernard Shaw