“My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.” LittlesWifeRelationBlondePublic RelationsBuzzPlatinumPetite Book:Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon Source: Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
“I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The whole world will think what an awful thing it is. What an awful thing it would be if the Mormons should just say we believe in marrying brothers and sisters.” IfsThinkingWorldShouldBelieveWholeWould BeI BelieveWifeBrotherRelationI Believe InWhole WorldAwfulBrothers And SistersMarryingPolygamy Author:Brigham Young
“And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family; and I was afterwards told by Warren Parish, that he himself and Oliver Cowdery did not that Joseph had Fannie Alger as wife, for they were spied upon and found together. And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet's plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject.” LittlesSaidI CanTogetherGirlFoundCausesWifeTroubleSubjectsRelationProphetSuspicionDisruptionPolygamyParishApostasy Author:Benjamin F. Johnson
“It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.” MenChildrenDoeFormWifeRelationErrorsCreditors Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.” MotherSocialMoralWifeRelationFundamentalsCharacteristicsDomesticityWives And MothersHousekeepersSocial RelationsHomemaker Author:R. Heber Newton
“There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.” ChristianFightingChurchWifeAtheismInfluenceOughtVoteRelationPositive AtheismMy WifeCombinationExceptionBakersPresbyteriansDeistVote For Me Author:Abraham Lincoln
“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
“I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.” SinPerfectWifeHusbandRelationCeremonySanctification Author:Victoria Woodhull
“I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.” FirstsTwoMotherThreeActingCareersWifeProudRelationInternationalInternational RelationsWives And Mothers Author:Shirley Temple