Tamora Pierce Quotes

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

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".

I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.

My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

I decided after my last divorce to marry myself.

When you're talking to a person, it only matters what they are perceiving. You only need them to perceive you as a loving husband. You don't necessarily need to be one. That's always a good road, if you actually are one. But what people are perceiving will dictate what their life is, and ultimately what your interaction is.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.

I just don't want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.

My husband really loves the red [lipstick], so I keep the red because I want to keep the husband.

He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field. I've often been asked, "Didn't you want to get married?" And of course I wanted to get married, but you have to fall in love and want to marry a particular person. You don't get married in the abstract. So, although there were people I felt I might have married, it just never happened.

Why should I cook for my husband? So he can tell a hooker I make a delicious cake?

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

If you really want to be lonely, get married.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.