Pastoral Resources

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

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.

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.

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.