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Letter "H" » Her husband
«The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''»
Author: Betty Friedan
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«The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.»
Author: Lemuel K. Washburn
| About:
Wives
| Keywords:
courts, cruel, divorce, foolish woman, grave, Her husband, notion, sent, The Grave
«The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was inadmisible, since it was the one thing that the Family, as an institution, could not do.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
appealing, dishonour, family business, Her husband, institution, screen
«The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee»
«This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; / Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
defiled, defiles, execute, Her husband, jealous, jealousies, priest, set aside
«The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Husbands,
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
American Woman, castrate, castrated, castrates, castrating, geld, gelded, Her husband
«The woman that tries t' keep up with the' procession don't see near as much as her husband who stands on the' curb»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
curb, curbed, curbing, curbs, Her husband, keep up, procession, processions
«The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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