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Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to 'covet thy neighbor's wife' clearly...

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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

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the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate ...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives...

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Elizabeth HardwickSeduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We t...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actres...

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Ira LevinThe Stepford Wives

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...

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Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then ...

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Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her ...

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I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If...

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When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's a...

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A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet ...

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[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

As a general rule, it is highly desirable that ladies should keep their temper: a woman when she sto...

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Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wi...

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?

When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spri...

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On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that'...

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