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“It occurred to me that both Maria and I were on the run in the twenty-first century, just like George Sand whose name was also Amantine was on the run in the nineteenth century, and Maria whose name was also Zama was looking for somewhere to recover and rest in the twentieth. We were on the run from the lies concealed in the language of politics from myths about our character and our purpose in life. We were on the run from our own desires too probably, whatever they were.”

Character Women Feminism Expectations Motherhood Denial Midlife Crisis Wifely Duty Political Purpose

Book:Things I Don't Want to Know

Source: Things I Don't Want to Know

“Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.”

Wife Married Life Wifely Duty

Book:The Enchanted April

Source: The Enchanted April

“Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?" I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.”

Marriage Wife Good Refusal Scarlet Wifely Duty Gisbourne

Book:Scarlet

Source: Scarlet

“Perhaps if I had made his life more difficult, he would have written less, or less freely. I cannot claim to be the midwife to genius, but if I have not facilitated,I have at least not, as many women might have done, prevented. This is a very small virtue to claim, a very negative achievement to hang my whole life on.”

Genius Domestic Bliss Wifely Duty

Book:Possession

Source: Possession

“What made their marriage more than a run-of-the-mill case of domestic estrangement was her refusal to accept her lot. She stayed furious all the days of her life - so sure of her ground, so successfully spoiled, that she was impervious to the social pressures and propaganda that made most women settle down to play the part of wife.”

Women Marriage Feminism Propaganda Estrangement Domesticity Social Pressure Wifely Duty

Author:Lorna Sage

“If the husband is not in a peaceful state of mind and is deprived of conjugal happiness, it would eventually percolate down to everyone else in the family. Hence, if the husband is without bliss, the fate of the wife also remains sunk in gloom.”

Wife Wife Quotes Wife And Husband Wifely Duty Conjugal Life

Book:Monologues of Mahalakshmi

Source: Monologues of Mahalakshmi

“Mrs Carey sighted as a woman but obey as a wife.”

Book:Of Human Bondage

Source: Of Human Bondage

“A wife's power is not to prove her husband but rather to improve him.”

Marriage Quotes Marriage Advice Marriage Counseling Wife And Husband Wifely Duty Wife Material

Author:Johnnie Dent Jr.

“When your husband's eyes light up as he comes in at night, you're in sad shape if it's only because he smells dinner cooking.”

Fashion Housewife 1950s Wife And Husband Anne Fogarty Wife Dressing Wifely Duty

Book:Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife

Source: Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife