Gail Carriger Quotes

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

You sleep with a man, that's your husband. So make sure before you lay down, you love him.

Husbands are never happy. My husband asked me for more space, so I locked him out of the house.

I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

No worse a husband than the best of men.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay." "Did you suggest she ask him?" Mom laughed. "Of course not. Business is slow.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

We have the beginnings of feminism starting to rear its head, where all of that got blown up. The whole point of going to college became not to find a husband - screw that! - feminism became, "You don't want anything about a man to be defining you, and you don't want your relationship to define, you! You don't want a relationship to be your happiness. You certainly don't want marriage to be the sole determining reason you live".

My husband says, 'God, Roseanne, I can't remember the last time we had sex.' Well, I can, and that is why we ain't doing it.

I have the most romantic husband. I do.

Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work -- and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.

As a single couple, we are no longer able to hang around with married couples 'cause they cannot be in our presence without getting very annoying. It's always like, 'So, when are you guys getting married? Huh? When are you getting married? When are you guys getting married?!' I dunno, you're married - when are you gonna die? You're already married, death will be next. When are you gonna die?

Mrs. Charlotte Phelan's Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with a trust fund.

It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives