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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.
Megan Fox
Actress · American · b. 1986
A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.
Lou Costello
Comedian · American · 1906 – 1959
It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.
Debra Messing
Actress · American · b. 1968
I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.
Alexandra Paul
Actress · American · b. 1963
I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
Raquel Welch
Actress · American · b. 1940
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.
Tipper Gore
Celebrity · American · b. 1948
I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.
Karen Duffy
Actress · American · b. 1962
I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.
Julia Barr
Actress · American · b. 1949
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.
Sharon Stone
Actress · American · b. 1958
Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
Katherine Dunham
Dancer · American · 1909 – 2006
I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing.
James McAvoy
Actor · Scottish · b. 1979
Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.
I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.
Marta Kristen
Actress · American · b. 1945
My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'
Beverly Johnson
Model · b. 1952
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.
Debi Mazar
Actress · American · b. 1964
As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.
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.
Helen Garner
Novelist · Australian · b. 1942
My husband came up to Hot Rocks to check up on me, why is still unknown to me because if I was to cheat on him it wouldn't be in a neighborhood bar where he knows I am.
Kim Mathers
Celebrity · American · b. 1975
To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.
Holly Marie Combs
Actress · American · b. 1973
Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
Tina Fey
Comedian · American · b. 1970
I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
H. L. Mencken
Writer · American · 1880 – 1956
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce
Journalist · American · b. 1842
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck
Journalist · American · 1927 – 1996
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
E. M. Forster
Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Samuel Richardson
Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
Mary Astell
Writer · English · 1666 – 1731
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher · French · 1533 – 1592
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Franklin P. Jones
Journalist · American
I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.
Anthony Weiner
Politician · American · b. 1964
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
Oriana Fallaci
Journalist · Italian · b. 1929
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
David Antin
Poet · American · b. 1932
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
Writer · English · 1890 – 1976
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
Arnold Bennett
Novelist · English · 1867 – 1931
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson
Novelist · British · b. 1959
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Gerald Brenan
Writer · English
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honore de Balzac
Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850
No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other.
George Weinberg
Psychologist · American
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
B. R. Ambedkar
Politician · Indian · 1891 – 1956
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.
Ismail Merchant
Producer · Indian · 1936 – 2005
That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.
Mother Jones
Activist · American · 1837 – 1930
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone de Beauvoir
Writer · French · 1908 – 1986
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
Lucy Stone
Activist · American · 1818 – 1893
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya
Politician · Indian