- Passion
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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
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife was born in Korea, and we met in music college; she was there for vocal, and I was there for drums.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind playing someone's girlfriend or wife if I have something to say, if I bring something to the picture, if I can be strong and powerful and say smart things. If not, then it's just boring.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.
- Enforcing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a bill with deep roots in Minnesota, seeds planted by former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila.
- Easy Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder - it's not an easy job. It's not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what's going to happen throughout the day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand why my mum and my wife can't bear to watch me fight. There's a lot of blood, a lot of pain.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve her husband, no ambition other than to produce a son, and no interest beyond subjugating herself to her husband's family - meaning, among other things, she must never remarry if widowed.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
For centuries, divorce in the West was a male tool of control - a legislative chastity belt designed to ensure that a wife had one master, while a husband could enjoy many mistresses. It is as though, having denied women their cake for so long, the makers have no wish to see them enjoy it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020