Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.
– Erica Jong
Related Quotes:
- I married my first husband for love, my second husband for adventure, and my third husband for laffs. – Carolyn V Hamilton
- Marriage is sacred intimacy. The husband must love, feed and care for the family. The wife must love, respect and submit to the husband. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box. – Erica Jong
- Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. – Erica Jong
- In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. – Lucretia Mott
- Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else’s husband. – Elizabeth Bowen
- Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you-”as husband and wife-”commit to keep growing spiritually. – Elizabeth George
- Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you-”as husband and wife-”commit to keep growing spiritually. – Elizabeth George
- Live each day as if it could be the last day that you spend with your husband or wife. – Lindsey Rietzsch
- A happy marriage is a personal choice. The same way you decide to GET married? It’s the same way you decide to STAY happily married! – Ngina Otiende
- We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. – Erica Jong
- Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. – Erica Jong
- Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. – Erica Jong
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- Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. – Erica Jong
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. – Erica Jong
- Tears are a form of communication – like speech – and require a listener. – Erica Jong
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. – Erica Jong
- …filled her memory bank with shiny coins. – Erica Jong
- Without the gods, how would I sing?’ I asked.With your own voice,’ he said. – Erica Jong
- …readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions… – Erica Jong
- Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and growing up. – Erica Jong
- she died of internal weeping – Erica Jong
- The ‘institution of marriage’ is being threatened – by people getting married? Huh? – Christina Engela
- Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life. – Jesse Holdeman
- Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.— Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York – Anna Godbersen
- Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A righteous husband is a responsible husband. – Habeeb Akande
- Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse. – Kate Chopin
- My greatest privilege is being married to a gentle loving husband. I am very grateful God made our path cross. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael. – Emily Giffin
- Before marriage, you lose your virginity. After marriage, you get to give it away. Which would you rather experience? – Todd Stocker
- Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Husband and wife, must complement each other. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms. – Munia Khan
- How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They’re On the Same Side? – Zig Ziglar
- One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip. – Erma Bombeck
- Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations. – Norhafsah Hamid