"Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress."
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"Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands."
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"A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress"
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"We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return."
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"My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race."
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"When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman."
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"A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed."
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"Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives."
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"A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern."
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"My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more."
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"No wife, no horse, no mustache"
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"A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures."
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"Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct."
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"God wants a love partner, centering on the place where husband and wife become one through their sexual organs, God wants to appear and meet us...I wish you would center on the absolute sexual organ, unique sexual organ, unchanging sexual organ and eternal sexual organ and use this as your foundation to pursue God...We have to realize that the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven will begin on this foundation."
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"A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him."
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"Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day."
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"Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers."
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"I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children."
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"A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant."
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"Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?"
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