- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wife Quotes
The partner who shapes everyday life.
Some of these come from people speaking plainly about who they married, others push back on how 'wife' gets used as a flat character label. For romantic Hindi verse instead, see our Shayari collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Different Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me.
- Doll
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband has an outstanding record in promoting opportunity for women and the women that he surrounds himself in his staff and the women that he has promoted throughout his career. He's the father of three daughters. He's obviously a husband who's been very supportive of a very active wife with her own career.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020