{"quotes":[{"text":"Wives?' she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, 'None active,' as if wives were volcanoes.","author":"John le Carré","tags":["caution","circumspection","husbands","marriage","married-life","separation","wives"],"id":1298,"author_id":"John+le+Carr%C3%A9"},{"text":"Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advice","advices","advise","aphorism","aphorisms","counsel","counseling","counselling","counsellor","counsellors","counselor","counselors","divorce","divorced","divorcee","divorcees","experience","extended-families","extended-family","families","family","fool","foolish","fools","humor","humour","husband","husbands","learn","learned","lesson","lessons","love","lover","lovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","marriage","marriage-proposal","marriage-proposals","married","marry","nuclear-families","nuclear-family","proposal","proposals","propose","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","relationship","relationship-advice","relationships","satire","satirical","thought-provoking","useful","usefulness","useless","uselessness","wife","wisdom","wise","wives"],"id":9822,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-proverb","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","husband","husbands","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","marriage","marriage-life","matrimony","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","wedding","wife","wives"],"id":32713,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["husbands","jane","love","marriage","wives"],"id":39772,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn't settle for less than she deserves.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["confident-woman","doesn-t-settle","husbands","in-love","joyous","loved-completely","queens","respected","respectful-husbands","self-respect"],"id":45381,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor.","author":"W. Somerset Maugham","tags":["husbands","love","marriage"],"id":47213,"author_id":"W.+Somerset+Maugham"},{"text":"Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["abilities","clichés","double-standards","empowerment","equality","feminism","feminist","gender","greatness","human-nature","husbands","hypocrisy","integrity","men","men-and-women","misogyny","penina-mezei","skills","stereotypes","strong","wives","women"],"id":55617,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty. Heresy should be trodden out beneath the bigot's brutal feet. Husbands should divorce their wives at will, and make the mothers of their children houseless and weeping wanderers. Polygamy ought to be practiced; women should become slaves; we should buy the sons and daughters of the heathen and make them bondmen and bondwomen forever. We should sell our own flesh and blood, and have the right to kill our slaves. Men and women should be stoned to death for laboring on the seventh day. 'Mediums,' such as have familiar spirits, should be burned with fire. Every vestige of mental liberty should be destroyed, and reason's holy torch extinguished in the martyr's blood.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["bible","bigot","brutal","burning","christianity","civilization","crime","death-penalty","divorce","forever","heathen","heresy","holy","husbands","inspired","judaism","kill","liberty","martyr","mental","mistake","mothers","murder","pentateuch","politics","polygamy","sabbath","sell","slaves","spirits","stoning","the-bible","torth","wander","weeping"],"id":64294,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.","author":"Wallace Stegner","tags":["apology","husbands","inequality","inferiority","marriage","matrimony","perception","wives"],"id":80948,"author_id":"Wallace+Stegner"},{"text":"Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertiveness","better","bettered","boldness","boy","boyfriend","boyfriends","boys","confidence","confident","courage","esteem","funny","girl","girlfriend","girlfriends","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","husband","husbands","improve","improved","in-secret-secretly","joke","jokes","kill","kill-herself-over","kill-himself-over","kill-oneself-over","kill-yourself-over","killed","killed-herself-over","killed-himself-over","killing-yourself-over","lover","lovers","man","men","mettle","nerve","phlegm","poise","romeo-and-juliet","satire","secret","self-assurance","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-murder","self-murders","self-possession","suicidal","suicide","suicides","wife","wives","woman","women"],"id":81360,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}