Pastoral Resources

When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.

I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

Every night, whisper 'peace' in your husband's ear.