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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
Wife

"I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
Wife

"She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
Wife

"Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes."

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Kristin Davis Actress
Wife

"I am not really interested in the comic book movies for example. They send me very violent scripts that don't interest me. One I was sent involved me playing a woman, a mother and wife who gets killed, shot in the stomach. It was a thriller and it did not excite me at all. So I turned it down."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Wife

"Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!"

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Wife

"All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this."

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